“In this series of paintings, I have experimented with inverting colour. Red becomes green. Blue becomes orange. Yellow becomes purple. And the tones are also reversed. Dark becomes light and light becomes dark...

...The catalyst was political. I made the first painting in inverted colours in a state of shock on the day after the UK referendum vote to leave the European Union in 2016. Brexit materially and emotionally affected my life and my family. I made a painting that brought together the personal and political impact in one image in which the colours were inverted. For me, inverting colour used the element that is intrinsic to painting as a means of opposition and critique. It changes the way we see. It expressed my disorientation and alienation from what was happening in my own country...

... Making these paintings undid my habits. But what effect do they have on the viewer? ”