light Archives

Arno Rafael Minkkinen
Body Land

For more than forty years, Arno Rafael Minkkinen has been photographing his body immersed in nature. What you see happening in the image happened in front of the lens.

Agnes Pelton
Desert Visionary

Agnes Lawrence Pelton (1881–1961) was a member of the Transcendental Painting Group, dedicated to the principles of creating and promoting a pure abstract painting style imbued with spiritual intent.

Charles Burchfield
The Shimmer of Nature

Burchfield’s nature scenes strike me as among the most experiential art I know, as he’s able to put you right into his synesthetic experience of nature.

Johfra Bosschart
Unio Mystica

Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism.

Bruce Ricker
Primordial Splendor

The painter has a language which translates meaning to the viewer beyond that which the viewer’s experience can give.

Chris Bryan
Mocean

Watching this video, I felt captured by a primal feeling of awe. One of these rare moments when we glimpse how inconceivably vast and powerful this reality is.

Klea McKenna
Automatic Earth

Automatic Earth refers to what I see as a ‘blue print’ that exists within nature; a plan within each organism to automatically generate a particular form or pattern that is then, inevitably flawed.

María Medem
Dancing between Earth and Sky

A perfect summer night and the mental state of being truly present to the current moment in time.

Linda Westin
Illuminated Dendrology

These portraits of the woods are influenced by imaging neuroscience. Especially the colors are reminiscent of the artist’s experience with fluorescence microscopy.

Sabin Bălaşa
Dreams of Eternal Blue

Bălaşa paints a unique universe, full of archetypal figures and metaphysical themes. He called it Cosmic Romanticism.

Seeds
Time Capsules of Life

Seeds are the most complex organs produced by plants, capable of traveling space and time to ensure the biodiversity of our planet.

Johfra Bosschart
The Zodiac Series

Surrealism based on studies of psychology, religion, the Bible, astrology, antiquity, magic, witchcraft, mythology and occultism.

Anouk Van Kalmthout
The Art of Dyeing

It’s like strolling through an otherworldly dream that feels like home at the same time, breathing the vibrant air of enchantment.

Maxfield Parrish
The Doctrine of Divine Light

Maxfield Parrish captures a light mood in his paintings that feels supernatural and very real and tangible at the same time.

Craig Burrows
The Invisible Light

Craig Burrows photographs plants and flowers using a type of photography called UVIVF or ultraviolet-induced visible fluorescence.

Flor Garduño
Inner Light of the Goddess

Flor Garduño’s pictures are a celebration of eternal womanhood and fecundity of nature.

Ben Roberts
Expired trips into the blue

Ben Roberts creates photographic contemplations of rural Japan with an unique artistic signature.

Pavel Tchelitchew
Bodies seen and unseen

Pavel Tchelitchew clearly was a seer of the unseen, a true visionary artist.

Benoit Paillé
Nightscapes wrapped in color

I love Benoit Paillé’s unusual and sensationally effective way to work with light and color.

Nature Photography
In Praise of Observation

These days the light returns and I behold an enchanted world. I feel so grateful for this gift of vision and the living world it presents to me.

James Turrell
Perceive your Perceiving

Turrell is an artist who works with the nature of perception. He uses light to make you perceive your perceiving.

Jordan Kasey
Radiating Eternity

I’m absolutely mesmerized by Jordan Kasey‘s paintings. Her color scheme and softness of shapes and light have a dazzling effect…

This 3D printing project is so extraordinary because of it’s self-sufficiency. It creates objects out of sun and sand. Of course it’s still in the early stages of development. But imagine what this could do in the future.