My work focuses on bridging the gap between movement and stillness by creating light reactive paintings and drawings which move and change under RGB LED lights.  

I use colour theory and the subtractive primary colours to layer images at different stages of movement. This creates short, repetitive, stop-motion animations when displayed under colour-changing lights, providing an immersive viewing experience.  

I use this effect to tell stories, conveying difficult emotions or ideas, and to depict progressions or cycles. Different images and meanings fade in and out of clarity on a slower lighting sequence, so that layers can be observed individually while three different time-frames continue to coexist on the canvas.  

Without the use of speciality lighting, my pieces remain bold, colourful and eye-catching in natural light. The vibrant colour-palette integral to this technique juxtaposes the more sensitive and heartfelt notions my paintings explore; such as anxiety, frustration and longing. The overlapping colours and designs in my work provokes visual overwhelm, identifying with the hard-to-depict subject matter and emotional saturation. 

Recently, I have been experimenting with the arrangement of the cyan, magenta and yellow layers which make up my pieces, spreading them further apart so they can be viewed all at once (See ‘Intangible Touch’). I am interested in using these colours to represent various planes of existence, coinciding on one canvas.  

Each image holds its own story, unaware of the role it plays as part of a bigger picture. I intend to develop this idea further as my practice progresses.