Come Hover is a new work on paper from a series entitled Breathing Spaces. It continues the artist’s exploration of two-dimensional art as a conduit between the viewer and the metaphysical through encounters with space and light. Abstraction offers Ella a non prescriptive language with the potential to use space and light as both the subject and medium. Whateley merges somewhat contrary traditions in the service of spatial ambiguity, combining interactive materials reminiscent of the Medieval icon with Renaissance perspective. Both traditions are mediated through the ‘grid’ which draws attention to the work’s surface and affirms the painting as an present in its own right.