‘My paintings are imaginary spaces that are intended to give a sense of place with their own laws of physics. Perhaps oxymoronic, where the investigation into the pure matter and aesthetics of paint meets emotion, narrative and memory.

I am hoping that the co-existence between the illusion and the real matter of the paintings create feelings that are somewhat indefinable; a flux somewhere between comfortable, pleasurable, uneasy and uncertain.

To further this, it is hoped that the pure matter and the illusion existing together will create a kind of time travel. The matter being very much about the present, and the illusion within the painting having more of a timelessness. Perhaps a memory of a certain time or an emotion that is associated to that time.

I want this illusion of a narrative to coexist with the constant enquiry into the real matter of the paint, and the aesthetics of colour and mark making. These processes are very much about the present, the here and now.

I feel the paintings need an element of inelegance and I look for beauty in the awkward and clumsy.'

Kay Bainbridge