INGALLERY.1 & .2
08 – 30 June 2024
FRANCESCA RAFT | Reflections in Light
“Light is the conductor between divinity and humanity, between God and man.
There is the divine thought; there is light; lastly there is human thought.” ~ Unknown.
Reflections in light is a series of oil paintings that explores the interplay between light, the temporal and the eternal unknown. These works have a three-dimensional quality that change and move with the position that they are placed, seeking not to pierce the sky’s mysteries but to live through them. As light changes and shifts its reflections throughout the day, the works reveal to the viewer new and familiar perspectives of an ever-present landscape.
Ever since I was a small child, I have looked at the sky in wonder. I have been fascinated by its grandness and its grace, moved by its capacity for perpetual life and mysterious power.
As I experienced life, light came to resemble more than a physical source of illumination. Within its daily dance with the sky were simple truths and knowledge that fed my emotional world and inspired my need to connect through art.
My studio is open to the sky, a palette of shifting atmospheres from which I draw daily inspiration and nourishment. The exploration of paint, a mercurial and elusive medium, allows me to shape and play with it as a moveable landscape. Light emerges from the dark with the play of colour, reflecting nature’s interwoven dualities of the sombre and divine.
My collectors engage in this journey into the infinite spaces I create. Experiencing the nature of time and light, silence and noise, always changing and shifting. Reflections in light has been long in the making, and I’m very much looking forward to it being experienced in such a space as Artsite Contemporary. ~ Francesca Raft, April 2024.
