On first glance these images’ balanced gradations are almost imperceptible in their subtlety. Once the viewer slows down to the works’ required patience, their surfaces are revealed to have been meticulously constructed with countless thin layers of paint in an array of tones, producing a glowing effect as if the canvases themselves were radiating from within.

Roberts’ latest works range from very pale to almost black; they all depict faintly receding planes that look to our eye to be translucent, and from under which there appears to be a murmur of glowing light. The effect is a series of paintings that are illusory and hypnotic