In her paintings and sculptures, Hayley Tompkins seeks to explore and expand paints’ application as a transformative tool. Often modest in scale, Tompkins’ energetic works are born from an experimental approach rooted in the navigation between intent and spontaneity. Soaked in paint, the works’ surfaces remain unpredictable as they accrue swaths of fluorescent color, and layers of brushstrokes that develop from both free-form associations, and distilled calculated interventions.

Hayley Tompkins (b. 1971, Leighton Buzzard) lives and works in Glasgow. She employs photography, painting and film to re-examine the everyday, asking us to look and look again. In her painted works she often rhythmically details and patterns various objects, from mallets and branches to shirts, sunglasses and chairs – refreshing and energising the mundane.