Born in 1982, James D Wilson is an artist based in South East London, UK working predominantly in paint on layered surfaces constructed from cardboard and wood. His work explores the relationship between abstraction and memory. Working from observational field notes or from memories of time spent in a place, his early sketches have a provisional feeling to them, as though glimpsed whilst on the move. He uses flashes of colour and minimal mark-making to make visual phrases, often cutting and re-assembling them in unexpected ways through collage. The compositions that emerge from this process, even in their fragmented state, retain a sense of the places that inspired them. After a period of immersion, with this research material pinned to the studio wall, intuition plays its part in deciding how to develop it.