This work on paper relates to Innes’s Exposed series, in which areas of the painting are stripped away with turpentine. By stripping away paint from the canvas Innes explores what he calls ‘un-painting’, highlighting the fragility and uncertainty of the painting process. Fluid, open areas of exposed surface streaked with residual paint contrast with blocks of solid colour. Repetition plays an important role in Innes’s paintings, in which often only small differences can be detected. He explains his repetitious working process, ’In the studio, I work on several paintings at the same time. I feed off one onto the next piece.’