Sarah Emily Porter is a visual artist who explores colour and the historical context of painting. By gaining an in-depth understanding of the chemical properties of paint, she has been able to challenge the rules of painting to create work that is a collaboration between her own desires and the unpredictable tendencies of her materials. With modernist ideas at the forefront of her work, she has created her own innovative painting tools which pour and manipulate paint on tilting wooden structures. By using unconventional painting processes, she creates a dialogue between art and science as the paint ebbs and flows in a single linear stroke under the force of gravity. This process removes the artist from the gesture and emotion of painting, highlighting instead the intricacies of her materials, and the process of application. Having previously worked in the events industry she thinks of painting as ‘an event - one that is as much concerned with the process of its emergence as it is with the final outcome.’ Material, machine and artist each take their turn in leading or resisting the outcome and it is a sensitivity to this push and pull that drives the work. Inspired by architecture, interior design and geometry, she creates digital sketches to map carefully considered mathematical systems and orders which form a framework for the production of her paintings.