Day 7 – Chroma 1
This is where it all began. Playing about with experiments in my studio I discovered the ‘fingerprints’ of pigments. Every dye and pigment has its own unique ‘pattern of colour’; or, as F. F. Runge, the 19th Century German analytical chemist would have put it, it forms its own ‘pattern picture for the friends of beauty’. Chroma 1 shows the brightness of pure colour set free from binder and substrate.
I am an artist with a fascination for collaborative experimentation. Over recent years I've worked with a polymer chemist to discover ways in which industrial resins may be used as painting mediums. I've also collaborated with the London Science Museum to explore science as a means of making visual art. My aim is to discover an unexpected aesthetic and untapped potential through a process of experimentation, trial and error.
