Bamboo Trellis Orange

"A picture of a faded wall fresco of a trellis made of bamboo sparked an idea for a border that I originally had painted as a frieze on a wall at home in gold on a foggy soft grey. Living with the frieze on the landing outside my bedroom for a while meant that I looked at it everyday and eventually I found myself playing with the idea of rearranging it. It was only when I stripped the bamboo element out of it and it became a purely geometric structure that a new design started to take shape. Dan Flavin fluorescent light installations gave me my next cue which was to give the design more depth by playing off one colour against another by superimposing a very neon almost fluorescent tone of colour against a duller one. I wanted the 'once upon a time' bamboo trellis to become charged with an electric pulse!" Neisha Crosland