Peter Halley:

I looked at Peter Halley's work in reference of my self-directed work because he uses really bright, almost neon colours in his paintings. Some parts also look as though they have rougher texture to them, I think the contrast of me working with card and tissue paper is something that would interesting when placed together. 

I want to use much brighter colours in the work, and focus mainly on triangles and squares. 

Henriette van 't Hoog

Installation view Flat Color: Ditty Ketting, Marije Vermeulen (3x), Guido Nieuwendijk (2x), Henriette van 't Hoog (2x) – FOR HVH 3

Colours – I really like the almost neon colours she uses. Their so bright that it’s impossible to miss. The ‘cubes’ works that I’m talking about are what inspired me to take my work off the wall and just focus on the shapes. Her work is painted straight onto the wall so she very much works with the space she’s given. Although my work is mounted on the wall, not glued straight onto it, I am working with the space a lot more than I have previously.

I also enjoy the amount of white space she leaves, she doesn't over crowd the audience and understands that, because of how bright the colours are, you don’t need as much of it – it would be too much for your eyes to take in.

I plan to use more vibrant colours, attaching them to straight to the wall, using them to join some canvases that I will space out randomly across the wall. I think this fits well with how this theme came about, I saw the original shapes though a window, so I think this is a good move forward. I enjoy the shapes being free, but I chose to experiment on a canvas – the parameters remind me of a window. Dotting the canvases around a space links with how I got the shapes, I took them from the landscape and they evolved into what I’m doing now, and to me the presentation of the shapes links the start with the finish very well.