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In “A Conversation with Colour”, Jonathan Forrest brings us bold abstractions with a sense of wit. Using a fresco-like approach – troweling wet bright colour into a wet grey undercoat of thick paint – he creates unique chromatic gradients, set proud against vividly washed grounds.

“My work is a combination of intuitive responses to the world around me, an ongoing dialogue with contemporary and historical painting, and an enthusiastic immersion in the material process of making objects … I come from a history of modernist painting rooted in abstract expressionism and colour-field painting. …