Australian artist Matthew Allen, currently based in Sydney, is a colour based painter. His work, which has been consistently exhibited at Sydney's Sullivan+Strumpf gallery since 2008, consists of a beautiful collection of minimalist colour combinations.

Allen's paintings are absent of any formal composition and physical elements of the artist's hand to present an ongoing enquiry into the pure materiality of paint upon canvas and the fundamental structure of painting itself: colour, medium and process. The painting is delicately handled to produce soft gradients of tone that in turn creates an atmospheric, sensory and emotional experience for the viewer.

Some of the gradients Allen has created, particularly in his 2010 works, look absolutely superb.