This interview marks the occasion of Wallace receiving Jackson's Oil Award 2024 for the painting Pond Nite Life which was part of the Midnight Feast exhibition at The MAC, Belfast. This award was a specialist category within the Jackson's Art Prize 2024. This is an international competition and there were 15,345 submissions from 117 countries. A longlist of 426 artworks was selected from which 70 made the shortlist. From these 70, 20 were awarded prizes. Part of the promotion of the art prize involved social media interviews. In this interview, Wallace shares her approach to colour and light, how she makes sense of composition, and the advice she received in art college that still informs her painting practice today