Artist Karen Ryan really had a light bulb "ah ha" moment! Last week she premiered her newest works in London called " 'Untitled' lights." Ryan takes traditional lampshades and upholsters them in artists’ canvas. She then paints the inner surface. "Untitled" are paintings that are internally lit, Ryan uses the familiar scallop standard lamp shade as her canvas. The lamp shade has been made larger than normal 18 inches 23 inches and its internal light fitting redesigned for its new life. The scallop shade is primed as a traditional canvas with gesso, its structure is made opaque so that no light penetrates its form but instead lights the thickness and stroke of paint marks and colours. Ryan commented, "I light colour rather than colour light. I abandon my artwork to the floor or a table."
Painting re-invented once again!! Amazing! Why didn't I think of that??
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