Helen Blake is a painter whose practice focuses on colour; engaging with rhythm and formalism, chance and deliberation.

Using a working method where process and contemplation guide the evolution of the work, she constructs overtly hand-made paintings which record and examine colour conversations within accumulating pattern structures, embracing accidents, flaws and discrepancies within their rhythms.

Starting from an imprecise grid structure, and rejecting the use of pre-drawn lines or tape, she build up layers of simple hand-painted lines and geometric shapes – square, triangle, rectangle, chevron – to create intricate surfaces where colour fragments can interact, sing together, harmonise, and sometimes jar.