My studio work in this exhibition focuses on the grid and how it can be used to recreate an image, both accurately and abstractly. Using the grid as a method for tracing an image onto a different scale and surface than the reference, whilst also leaving the squares that come with the grid as swatches of colour that create and pixelate the image, flattening an image/layer through this process, often combining the replication of the couch as a realistic form on to an abstracted image through pixelation of its form contrasting the prior. I have experimenting with the ways the grid can be used within a contemporary painting practice, such as the use of Photoshop to transform or overlay forms and subjects into a grid, allowing for efficient compositional refinement and experimentation, that can then be printed as a reference to recreated into a painting. I am also looking to see how leaving the grid visible within my work can reveal the methods and process of the painting clearly to the viewer.