(Summhall Sciennes Gallery description.)
Aurora
Arcade
sparks and confetti material
flowing neon arches material
Aqua Dreamscape - The background is a rich, inky cobalt blue, like deep water at night, completely filling the scene. Across it are many fish-shaped blurs, each one a streak of layered colours: Some have warm golden-yellow bodies that fade into soft orange at the edges. Others glow with pale cream or off‑white, with hints of peach or pink near the head. Several have touches of red or rust along what would be their fins or tails, so they look like tiny flames moving through dark water. Here and there are cooler notes: faint turquoise or teal glimmers along the sides of a few fish, and rare traces of greenish blue mixed into the motion trails. The texture is entirely made from motion blur: Each fish is stretched into feathery, semi‑transparent ribbons, like thin silk being pulled through water.Fins become fine, comb‑like streaks, giving a ribbed texture, almost like delicate threads or brush hairs.Some fish appear layered, with multiple overlapping outlines, creating a ghostly, multi‑exposed effect.Edges are soft and smoky, with colour gradually dissolving into the blue rather than ending in a sharp line. In places, the overlapping trails create thicker, velvety patches of orange and gold, while other areas stay light and wispy, like coloured mist. Overall, the image feels like glowing, warm-coloured fish made of gauze or light, drifting and streaking across a smooth, velvety blue background.
Warm Ember Haze - The image feels like a long-exposure burst of neon energy, with everything smeared into flowing ribbons of light rather than crisp shapes: deep indigo and electric blue flood the left side, especially near the bottom-left where several curved, wave-like blue lines stack like ripples, while thin pale yellow and light green scribbles loop across the upper-left like quick light-drawn sketches. Through the centre, a broad translucent white arc sweeps downward like a curved beam, cutting across a warm haze of orange and gold that blends into lavender and violet. The right side is the brightest, glowing with thick patches and streaks of yellow and amber, softened by a mist of pink and purple, and a couple of darker curved strokes near the upper-right resemble loose “S” shapes but don’t form readable text. Along the bottom, saturated purples and blues pool together with occasional thin bright white and pale-blue lines that jitter and trail, giving the whole scene a chaotic, festive, night-city-light impression driven by motion and colour contrast between cool blues/purples and hot yellows/oranges.
Multicoloured Fog Loops - Thick, soft-edged bands of colour flow through the image like smoke or silk ribbons, giving it a hazy, layered texture. At the top and centre, wide, smooth arcs of turquoise, aqua, lime green, and golden yellow blend into each other. Their edges are slightly blurred, so the colours melt together where they overlap, creating softer in-between shades like sea-green and pale chartreuse. Threaded through these larger bands are thinner, sharper lines of neon green, hot pink, and bright red. These look more electric and crisp, like fine wires of light cutting across the softer clouds of colour. In the lower half, many long, wavy strands of off‑white and pale yellow stretch upward. They have a glowing, filament-like texture, sometimes doubling back on themselves, so they feel a bit like glowing roots or streams of molten glass. Around and behind all of this, there are faint washes of violet, magenta, and deep blue that add depth, almost like translucent veils stacked on top of one another. Where the purple and blue meet the yellows and greens, the texture becomes more misty and smoky, as if the colours are dissolving into each other. Overall, the colour palette is rich and saturated: bright cyans, tropical greens, golden yellows, electric blues, vivid purples, magentas, and some small sparks of red, all layered in soft clouds and sharp threads of light.
Flowing Neon Arches - The image is an abstract field of flowing colour and light, with fine hair‑like lines of yellow, cream, and pale turquoise at the top that form a soft, feathery texture, bending slightly like hanging threads in motion. These give way to an upper band of broader, smoother swathes of off‑white and yellow, blended and cloudy like brushed paint, with a few thin dark streaks adding layered depth. In the central area, thin vertical streams of pale green, white, and yellow resemble flowing liquid or melted wax, set against more solid, velvety patches of teal and blue that feel like soft fabric or out‑of‑focus paint. The lower portion becomes heavier and richer, with thick, slightly curved vertical bands of deep teal, dark green, mustard yellow, rusty red, and bright turquoise that have the smooth density of oil paint and a sense of weight compared to the light lines above. Warm yellows, creams, and oranges dominate and seem to glow, while the cooler teals, greens, and blues provide contrast, so the whole image feels like layered ribbons of light and colour streaming past in continuous motion.
Watery-Mint, Sea-Foam-Green, Buttery-Yellow. - The image feels like a long exposure of light shining through coloured glass, all soft and blurred so nothing has a sharp edge. Most of it is filled with diagonal streaks running from the lower left to the upper right in pale mint green, light turquoise, soft lemon yellow, and hints of peach and coral, the colours melting into each other like watercolour bleeding on wet paper. In between those bands are faint, slightly darker vertical hints of grey‑blue and brown that suggest thin bars or panes, but they’re smudged so they feel more like gentle ridges of light than solid lines. At the centre the brightness peaks in a hazy column of almost pure white with a touch of green, glowing so strongly it washes out detail, and around that glow the mints deepen toward sea‑green and the yellows warm into light gold. On the far left there’s a more solid vertical area of muted olive green edged with a slim strip of maroon, heavier and more opaque, like a smooth frame beside all the drifting color. Along the bottom a darker band of deep brown and burgundy forms a velvety base, from which some of the pale green and yellow streaks curve gently upward as if forming blurred arches. Tiny specks scattered here and there add a faintly dusty grain over everything, but overall it feels like translucent pastel light-mint, aqua, lemon, cream, and soft coral flowing diagonally across a darker reddish‑brown and olive foundation.
Mythological Nebula II - The scene is filled with deep, rich blues and glowing warm tones.
The background is a very dark navy blue that fades into almost black at the top and bottom, like deep water. The fish are streaks of colour, not sharply defined, so their bodies become soft trails: Bright orange and golden yellow run through the centres, like molten metal. Soft whites and pale purples wrap around the edges, giving a misty, cloud-like halo. Intense red appears at some heads and tails, forming small, hot spots of colour that punctuate the image. Because of the motion blur, the textures feel more like flowing silk or smoke than solid scales. Edges are feathery and wispy, with thin, translucent ribbons where fins would be, suggesting a soft, drifting texture. Some areas where colours overlap become velvety purples and pinks, while others stay sharply separated: glowing orange against inky blue. Overall, it has the texture of a long brushstroke in wet paint, or coloured light trails moving through dark water-smooth, fluid, and slightly dreamy rather than crisp or detailed.
The background is a very dark navy blue that fades into almost black at the top and bottom, like deep water. The fish are streaks of colour, not sharply defined, so their bodies become soft trails: Bright orange and golden yellow run through the centres, like molten metal. Soft whites and pale purples wrap around the edges, giving a misty, cloud-like halo. Intense red appears at some heads and tails, forming small, hot spots of colour that punctuate the image. Because of the motion blur, the textures feel more like flowing silk or smoke than solid scales. Edges are feathery and wispy, with thin, translucent ribbons where fins would be, suggesting a soft, drifting texture. Some areas where colours overlap become velvety purples and pinks, while others stay sharply separated: glowing orange against inky blue. Overall, it has the texture of a long brushstroke in wet paint, or coloured light trails moving through dark water-smooth, fluid, and slightly dreamy rather than crisp or detailed.
Drawing Currents - The image feels like thick, velvety colour washed across a dark canvas, with everything stretched into soft ribbons as if the light itself was brushed through the air. The colours are intensely saturated: deep purples and magentas on the left blend into cobalt and turquoise, then sink into hot yellows, oranges, and reds across the lower half. The “flower” shapes are not crisp; they’re made of layered, flame-like strokes, like petals turned into molten glass. The yellow and orange areas look the most heated and dense, with overlapping loops that create a textured, swirled feel, while the purples and blues are smoother and more misty, like dyed smoke. On the upper right, the blue strands read like fine, wet threads or fibre-optic filaments, each one trailing downward in wavy lines and ending in tiny bright beads. A few thin green streaks cut through the middle like translucent blades, adding a slick, glassy contrast to the softer, smeared colour around them. The background stays mostly black, making the luminous colours feel raised and glowing, like neon paint floating in darkness.
Toothed Wheels - The image feels like glowing creatures made of pure light drifting through darkness, but their tops also resemble spinning toothed wheels made of color: smooth ribbons of hot magenta curl and sweep across a deep, velvet‑black space, and on top of them sit bright, bristling caps of red, green, and blue that form circular edges with tiny jagged teeth, like neon gears or crowned cogs. Each wheel‑like cap is alive with motion, the red streaks thick and fiery, curving in quick repeated arcs around the rim, while sharp lime‑green lines and cooler bluish strands weave between them, so the texture turns from silky to spiky in an instant, as if sparks are flying off fast‑turning wheels. The clusters repeat in different sizes, one large and close at the bottom, another arching and dramatic at the top right, and a smaller one hovering in the upper middle, all suspended in a huge, quiet darkness that makes their colors feel almost too intense. Along the lower right edge, a soft cyan glow spreads like a cool mist or underwater light, with no hard borders, just a gentle fade from bright blue‑green into black, calming the heat of the magenta and red and giving the whole scene the feeling of drifting through some strange neon machine‑ocean, where everything is made of glowing gears, motion, and light.
345 Vortex - A whirlpool of saturated light, like wet paint spun into a vortex. Thick bands of magenta and violet sweep across the right side in smooth, velvety ribbons, while hot red streaks cut through them like smeared lacquer. On the left, yellow and green trails flare and fold over each other, resembling translucent silk or flames, with edges that feather into the dark. Near the centre-left there’s a bright, cloudy orb of white and pink, soft and milky like cotton candy fog, with hints of coral and pale blue inside. Around it, electric blue and teal lines kink and ripple like scribbled neon wire. Across the lower half, countless tiny teal and yellow dash-marks form curved rows, giving a beaded, sequinned texture - like a mesh of glittering stitches bending with the swirl. A vertical ladder of small white dashes rises near the right-centre, adding a sharp, metallic rhythm against the softer smears. The whole image feels glossy, layered, and in constant motion, with textures shifting between smooth satin arcs and sparkling, dotted embroidery.
Corrugated Lime - Soft, smeared ribbons of neon colour flow across a deep, nearly black background, like wet paint dragged quickly through the air. The brightest areas are electric lime and yellow-green, cutting diagonally from lower right toward upper left in wide, translucent bands. Overlapping that are hot pink and magenta strokes, plus thinner cobalt and cyan lines that curl and ripple like loose handwriting.On the left side, pale white arcs repeat in tight, comb-like ridges, creating a corrugated texture, as if light has been stamped in layers. The colours stack in semi-transparent sheets, so where they overlap they form muddy oranges, teals, and purples, with a hazy glow at the edges. The whole image feels silky and fluid, with streaked gradients and faint ghosted shapes, more like light trails and reflections than solid forms.
Sparks of Sunlight, Denim Jean - The image feels like a garden turned into a painting made of motion, with soft, sun‑warmed greens dominating as overlapping, semi‑transparent strokes, some pale and lemony, others deeper and mossy, forming a rippled, woven texture brushed diagonally across the frame. Pools of saturated magenta‑pink glow on top of these greens, their petals stretched and feathered so the color seems to radiate outward from small, warm yellow centres, giving them a halo‑like softness. Behind and between them, darker, inky greens and bluish‑black tones collect into dense, velvety masses, broken by tiny sparks of orange, rusty red, and cream that flicker like scattered embers in shadow. Higher up, the greens lighten into a smoother, more uniform, sunlit field, while cool denim‑blue vertical streaks cut through on the right, adding upright, contrasting lines against the flowing diagonal smears of foliage. Throughout, edges dissolve, colors bleed gently into each other, and the entire scene vibrates with diagonal and vertical trails of pigment, creating the sensation of a lush garden in motion, rendered as shifting bands of color and texture rather than distinct shapes.
Glowing yellow bands - The image is a wash of soft, streaky textures, like brushed paint on a canvas. Most of it is layered greens, resembling long grass dragged into fine vertical and diagonal strands, giving a fibrous, grassy feel. Across this, wide yellow arcs sweep through like glowing ribbons or hose pipes, slightly translucent, with feathery green streaks running through them where the background shows. Near the centre, colours bunch together in a dense, almost swirling knot: warm reds, oranges, and pinks blend into one another like smeared pastel or spinning fruit, edged by a vivid, electric green bar that’s more solid and blocky in texture. The motion blur makes every edge soft and wavy, so nothing is sharply defined; it feels fluid and windy, as if the whole scene has been brushed sideways, leaving trails of colour and fine, hair-like lines of green over everything.