Throughout her twenty year career as an artist Kathryn Thomas’ paintings have engaged the viewer with a power that is enigmatic and intriguing. Through these changing images she conjures feelings of atmosphere, emotion, fleeting glimpses of natural beauty, energy and underlying power. It is this underlying power that keeps you coming back for more and seeing something new in every painting she creates.

‘Dark Light’ sees the beginning of a new phase in Kathryn’s work. She has been exploring and researching new elements to take her paintings to another level, pushing the visual boundaries beyond the horizon and playing with the scale.

Here we see the initial response to the recent visit to Iceland where she finally caught up, experienced and absorbed the power of the northern lights. Kathryn has always been deeply engaged with the light and the sky that surrounds us - but now she has begun to look through the aurora, the sky and at the limitless beauty of space beyond.

The power of the ice fields, and their absorption and distribution of light and colour, has had a profound effect. It is the quietness and subtlety of reduced winter light on which Kathryn has initially focussed.

Almost as an antithesis we will see the continued fascination in studying the intensity of colour in fire - looking at it atomically, a burning hot sun, shifting levels of colour creating the composition moving against and with each other with no feeling of space or horizon that will engulf the viewer.