The artwork I'm going to describe for you now was created by the artists Siddharth Gadiyar. It's named ‘Untitled 3.’ And it was created using acrylic and tape on paper. It's a square piece, it's 240cms squared, which is just roughly under eight foot, so it's extremely large. 

The subject of the artwork is a ginormous circle, which spans the whole square. At the top, it’s a few mm from the top of the square. And on the left and right sides, it's slightly wide, like a couple of cms from the edge and at the bottom is about a cms or two.

I would describe it as an abstract piece, but it does reference things from the real world, but also other artistic movements. So, this huge circle has a series of ever decreasing circles within it. It's a very colourful, punchy piece. It's almost sort of creating visual distortion with my eyes - the way that the colours are contrasting against each other. So, in the background of this circle, with these concentric circles layered painted over it, we have a very bright summer's day blue. A very sort of picture perfect summer's day blue. Okay. And then layered over it, we have a series of …and that's painted in a very flat manner, with no visible brushstrokes on it. But then these circles painted over the top, we have a series of 1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,3,14 circles leading towards the centre of the image. The first circle, the wider circle, at the edge of this big circular piece, is a kind of dark, very sort of dark pond, swampy green. The second line is a very strong ultramarine blue. So, a warm, sort of hot, regal blue. The third circle moving all the way round, as we're going towards the centre is a vibrant Colman's mustard yellow, okay, very punchy. The fourth circle moving in is jet black. The fifth one is grey. And it's the grey one is, in some places, it's slightly kind of translucent. And it's worth saying now that the circles as we move in, they're all very much hand painted, and they have a rough edge to the line. They're not super slick and smooth. And the paint isn't applied in a flat way, like this bright summer’s blue of the background. So, they're very obviously painted, and they have a particular kind of character to that to them, which works very nicely with this flat blue background. So, after the grey circle, we then have this white circle, which is I would say the white circle is one of the more - the shape of the circle changes slightly so in the diagonal top left-hand corner, it kind of ducks in towards the centre, a little bit more than perhaps it should if you wanted a sort of perfect circle, but obviously the artist doesn't want that. The next circle with within this white line, is again another bright punchy ultramarine blue. Then we move again to a Colman's mustard yellow, so you can see the pattern is starting to repeat itself. Then a black after the yellow, which is always a good contrast, and then this grey again.

Then the pattern changes, and we have a bright red circle, which is the fourth from the centre of the piece. And it's a very bold primary red, scarlet bright. And there are some drips flicking off it. And the longer I'm looking at the painting, the more I'm noticing these little drips, so the white circle has these little flickers coming off it spilling onto the blue. Very fine. Almost like dental floss or a spider's web - very, very fine lines just flicking off. It gives a sense of the energy that this painting was created in. It's a very animated piece, and you can tell it was done at speed and with great enthusiasm.

After this red circle in the middle, we then move into the again is repeated the outside line, this dark, swampy green is coming in. Then we have a white circle within it. And then the final circle, which is this ultramarine blue. The circle in the centre, which is now radiating off almost like a sort of, it's a bit like a stone dropped in a water, when the circles/the ripples radiate out, you could read it like that. Or you could read it in terms of the colours because of the bright reds and yellows, it reminds me of a target or a dartboard - some type of board for a game. 

Then, for me personally, this is how I view it, then I read - there's a strong horizontal and a vertical black line, which obviously meet right in the middle of this blue circle. And then after I've noticed that I start to notice there are yellows moving on the diagonals through this cross section in the middle. Which again, gives it a more target, suddenly changes it to a sort of target like appearance. One thinks of the targets created by Jasper Johns – it is the first thing that kind of comes into my mind. I don't know whether the artist is has been influenced by those works, but they're when I'm looking at this work, that was the first thing that kind of thought of when I first saw it. 

As we get to the right to the centre of these, this black cross right in the centre of this blue circle with all of these multi-coloured circles spiraling and radiating out, we notice that the paintwork of the yellow diagonals kind of just crosses slightly it stops so you can see the black cross right in the middle, but the yellow kind of just eclipses this slightly on all sides - like it was painted afterwards. So perhaps the black cross was painted first, then the yellow and then the circles kind of later over the top.

I know that Siddharth works very fast and he's an extremely prolific image maker. And some of these works are completed in time as quick as three hours. Occasionally, he uses figurative imagery, but the majority of his work remains abstract. And the signature for him, the circle for him is a signature motif. The slight kind of optical distortion, I think comes from the colour choices, the very punchy, summer's day blue, bright blue. A very sort of optimistic colour with these more, sort of, these circles painted over with a lot more character and vibrancy to the edges of them. And it creates this kind of tension between the background and the foreground. And the longer I'm looking I'm looking at this piece, I'm starting to see almost like the circles could be coming up at me or moving away from me. So, the longer I look at it, I'm getting more kind of, the image is playing tricks with me, as it were, so an artist like Bridget Riley and her optical art suddenly springs to mind.

It's an intriguing artwork. Siddharth works with the Project Art Works collective based in Hastings.