Gunn is passionate about the use of natural materials and traditional paint recipes used since the Renaissance and beyond. Typically considered flaws, the fissures and cracks exposed in her gesso paintings symbolise an interest in the Eastern philosophy of embracing imperfection. Each work is unique due to the accidental vicissitude of the process.The Kintsugi idea of mending belongs to the Zen ideals of wabi sabi, which cherishes what is simple, unpretentious and aged; where the history of an object is considered an expression and reconciliation with the flaws and accidents of time. The absence of imagery allows a pure meditation of the surface and material as a poesis, in the fundamental sense, a movement of coming into thought of the process of making.