For more than five decades, Lyn Godley's work has explored how visual experience shapes human experience. Across painting, design, light, teaching, and research, her practice has remained centered on the relationships between people, perception, and the environments they inhabit.

Beginning as a painter and later expanding into product, lighting, and environmental design, her work has consistently explored how people experience objects, spaces, and light. During this period, she was a partner in the internationally recognized design studio Godley-Schwan (1984–1998), whose work was exhibited internationally and collected by institutions including the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Her current practice extends painting through projected light, creating immersive works in which changing visual relationships unfold through time. Working with painting, light, and time as interconnected media, she investigates how rhythm, pacing, and sustained attention shape the experience of the present moment.

Alongside her studio practice, Godley has developed interdisciplinary teaching and research initiatives that extend many of the same questions explored in the studio. This work culminated in the founding of the Jefferson Center for Immersive Arts for Health at Thomas Jefferson University, where artists, designers, scientists, and healthcare professionals collaborated to investigate how visual environments influence human experience and well-being.

Godley's work has been exhibited internationally and is represented in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, the Jewish Museum, the Museum of Arts and Design, the Brooklyn Museum, MUDE Design Museum, the Indianapolis Museum of Art, the Denver Art Museum, and the Philadelphia Museum of Art, among others.