Swiss artist Mayo Bucher's abstract work is a complex world of structure, colour, form and signs that relates painting to architecture, design and music.

Indeed, in recent years, much of Bucher's imagery has appeared on the CD covers of the distinguished independent record company ECM.

Trained as a graphic designer, Bucher received a number of commissions in the late Eighties and early Nineties, including from Vogue.

He then started painting full-time, producing geometric imagery from a limited palette.

Compositions consisting of blocks of colour, the thin outline of a shape or one straight line crossing the centre of his paintings, are his signature.

Professor Michael Tucker, Principal Lecturer in Historical and Critical Studies at the University of Brighton, said: "Apparent was Bucher's unforced play with static and dynamic aspects of geometry, a strong yet refined feeling for colour and the way he could make a line appear both to float upon and sink back into the enveloping colour field."

Bucher achieves his textured surfaces by using a combination of plaster, oils and acrylic, sanding down and scratching or scraping into the MDF board he works on.

Stripped of any reference points, the pictures come across as meditative explorations of form.

Tucker continued: "One might have been tempted to describe the work as ascetic were it not for the quietly enlivening textural variety in the pieces and the spare but telling use of the sort of deep, rich red that can sound a note as sensuous as it is spiritual in impact."