I explore optical illusion by distorting geometric patterns through drawing and painting. I have a long-standing obsession with Op Art, and have over the last year been exploring my ideas via a cube motif.  Each work is constructed through careful planning - drawing out and mapping scaffolding lines around which to distort the pattern; and through spontaneity - learning new geometric rules and changing elements of the formula, such as light and colour. This draws the viewer away from the monotony of the repeating pattern, and deliberately disrupts the harmony of the final composition. I enjoy the meditative, repetitive motions that come with pattern making and aim to immerse myself in a flow state during the painting process, after which the final outcome provides the viewer a pleasurable conclusion to the methodological process behind it.