“Working at the intersection of painting and projected light, my work uses light and time as its primary media. Neither can be held or fixed. Both are known only through what they reveal.”
These immersive paintings combine hand-painted surfaces with projected light to create visual environments that unfold through time. Painting provides a stable ground, while changing light keeps the image in motion, allowing the work to exist as an experience rather than a fixed image.
“Painting anchors the experience. Light composes the experience. Time allows it to unfold.”
Stillness and Motion
A fixed, hand-painted surface is layered with slowly shifting projected light. The painting provides a stable ground, while light introduces continuous change. It is through this relationship between stillness and motion that time gradually reveals itself.
Paintings
Watercolors and oil paintings that convey a sense of fluid movement through dialogues between color and gesture.
Anchored in traditional artistic training, my medium includes paint, pastel, and charcoal, alongside new media technologies.
Investigations with Light
Exploring the use of light as an artistic medium to evoke both a sense of calm and engagement.
Image credit: Mark Havens
New media technologies allow artists to explore new processes to engage viewers across time, platforms, and interactivity.
The Science
Engaging with art has been shown to enhance health and well-being. We are naturally drawn to light for psychological and physiological reasons. Immersive experiences engage multiple senses, changing emotion over time. We are researching the health benefits of integrating art, light, and immersive experiences.
Everything in the natural world is beautifully dynamic, so why should our built environments be static?
Past Work
Lyn’s career began as a partner in the design team Godley-Schwan. From chandeliers to dynamic facades, her past work explored a range of light sources and user experience.
I have always been more interested in how my work can be a dialogue with and for people rather than a monologue about myself.
About
Lyn Godley is a multi-media artist whose work has crossed the borders of fine arts, design, and research. Her studio focuses on how art can impact the well-being of the viewer.