“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.
Shifting Patterns
Repeating visual patterns drift in and out of alignment. The elements themselves remain constant, while their relationships continually change through time.
Rhythm and Alignment
As these patterns unfold, attention gradually shifts from trying to understand the image to simply experiencing its unfolding through time.
Time and Perception
As the work continues to unfold, time may begin to feel less like something passing and more like something being experienced.
About
Lyn Godley's work spans art, design, teaching, and research through a continuous practice of making. Her current practice extends painting through projected light, using painting, light, and time to create immersive works that unfold through changing visual relationships.
Everything in the natural world is beautifully dynamic,
so why should our built environments be static?
Research and Studio Practice
The studio serves as both a place of making and inquiry. Research grows directly from the artwork, investigating how environments composed through painting, light, and time influence attention, mood, and the experience of time.