​These paintings seem to reflect the current stage of my life – becoming a parent and running a household. Struggling to maintain a sense of control I crave order in the colourful, domestic chaos that comes with being a mother of a four year old girl, and a four month old boy.
 

This series of work is all painted with my collection of found pigments made from raw material that I gathered over the past 10 years from the places I have travelled to. The way in which each individual colour swatch is perceived is largely determined by its neighbours and its being part of the whole painting.
 

Looking for different compositions in which to arrange my colour swatches, I started using various rules, games, and systems to generate patterns. The aim is to create a configuration that pulls the viewer into looking for the apparent visual pattern, which is not so easy to find. The patterns seem to appear and disappear. They might translate as random, but random does not follow a set of rules. And ironically when you try your own hand at making a random design – we tend to fall into patterns that we cannot seem to resist.