Ambient
Light Paintings

Ambient Light Paintings are immersive, site-responsive works that use slowly shifting colour and projected light to create environments of calm, presence, and sensory renewal. Rather than traditional painted surfaces, these works treat light itself as the medium — a soft, atmospheric field that unfolds over time. By dissolving edges, subjects, and narrative, each piece becomes an experience rather than an object: a place to pause, breathe, and feel held by colour.

Drawing on colour theory, chromatherapy, and the emotional resonance of natural light phenomena, these installations are designed to gently transform interior spaces. They invite viewers of all ages and backgrounds - regardless of their exposure or understanding of contemporary art, or anything for that matter - into moments of quiet reflection, mood recalibration, and subtle transcendence.

These works sit between installation, light art, and colour field abstraction, yet avoid spectacle. Instead, they prioritise accessibility, emotional resonance, and sensory calm. Designed for private spaces, galleries, and public environments alike, they aim to shift the atmosphere of a space, offering a quiet, uplifting counterpoint to the intensity of daily life.

Playa de los Muertos (2025)
Light projection time-lapse, variable dimensions.
Private install, Nov 2025.

Malibu Meditation Studio, Zuma Beach (2025)
Light projection time-lapse, variable dimensions.
Private install, Nov 2025.

Return To Forever (2025)
Light projection time-lapse, variable dimensions.
Private install, Oct 2025.

Still from Desert Meditation Station install, remote Western Australia, Nov 2025.

Midnight At The Lagoon (2025)
Light projection time-lapse, variable dimensions.
Private install, Sept 2025.

Still from Bali Villa install, Uluwatu, Indonesia, Nov 2025.

Desert Origins (2025)
Light projection time-lapse, variable dimensions.
Private install, Oct 2025.

Still from Giallo Sunrise private screening, Naarm/Melbourne, Oct 2025.

Peace Offering (2025)
Light projection time-lapse, variable dimensions.
Private install, Oct 2025.

Midnight Sun (2025)
Light projection time-lapse, variable dimensions.
Private install, Oct 2025.

Adventures In Paradise (2025)
Light projection time-lapse, variable dimensions.
Private install, Oct 2025.

Dream Sequence (2025)
Light projection time-lapse, variable dimensions.
Private install, Sept 2025.

Ambient
Works

This is a new series inspired by the West Coast Minimalism and Light & Space movements of 1960s and 70s L.A.

These pieces are designed to open up a room; to provide a window, a doorway, a portal into another space; an ocean, a horizon, the sky, or another dimension that perhaps only exists peripherally in the mind of the viewer. 


The digital works are projected in a site-specific gallery context, as well as made permanent as a separate one-off archival pigment print on transparent acrylic plexiglass.

The transparency of the plexiglass allows each piece to remain at the whim of the setting where it’s exhibited due to shifting light that illuminates it in different ways throughout the day.

Abstract Works

These pieces were created using mark-making techniques that combine oils, acrylic house paints, dyes, glue, wax, bleach and other solvents. The paint is applied using dying techniques, squeegees, palette knives, paint scrapers, rags, and directly by hand. This creates thick, viscous oceans of psychedelic colours - and within them, hidden worlds that evoke dreams, ghosts and memories.

The physicality of how the mixed media is applied combines elements of action painting and process art, invoking abstract expressionism and neo-Dadaism. The resulting fabrics are then stretched, collaged or draped onto other canvases and linens and hung in and around timber frames, often blurring the line between 2D painting and 3D sculpture.