Darius Guilford is an Australian visual artist and graphic designer living and working in the Blue Mountains near Sydney, Australia. The traditional lands of the Darug, Gundungarra and Wiradjuri people. With over three decades in graphic design and communication Darius brings strong design principles and disciplined process to his art practice. Darius’ work is non-objective and is based in formal considerations of shape, colour, tone, composition, and marks that can be created with various tools. He works with considered geometries and formal composition. The use of a strictly applied grid speaks to formal training in graphic design, his career for over 30 years. Darius uses formal compositional devises of proportion, division and repetition to provide scaffolding on which to build either complex or refined paintings. Choices of separated areas of colour, or overlapping layers, or precisely applied marks are the ways he chooses to explore what painting and drawing can be. Or at least what they can for him in his current practice. Darius explores the materiality of painting through process. At times he is exuberant in gesture, at others he chooses restraint. Both process and material become the subject of the finished work.