Lett’s work plays with light and colour as inseparably intertwined. The act of painting is considered through the histories of abstraction, gestural painting, and colour and light movements. This exploration is materialised through the use of reductive, industrial surfaces and paint applied with a wide, colour-loaded brush. There is an implicit physical momentum in Lett’s work: the push and pull, the twists, the drag of the brush, the drip, the stop, and the start.
Individual works explore the surface and traditional constraints of painting by, at times, bouncing off its edges and returning inwards to explore the interior space of the picture plane. At other times, they zoom off the edge, implying a broader, limitless world of which we are only seeing a cropped section. In either direction, there is a dedication to the inherent physical and atmospheric properties of colour and light.
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