LUCENT DRIFT

48 x 48 (1.5” deep)

2025

Lucent Drift explores the quiet poetry of light in motion. The painting magnifies the delicate patterns of refraction that ripple across shallow water — the fleeting, luminous threads that exist for only a moment before dissolving again.

Here, the focus tightens; the scene becomes almost abstract. The water’s shifting lines are distilled into soft, rhythmic currents of blue and white, hovering between realism and minimalism. The result is a meditation on stillness, movement, and the spaces in between.

Technique

Painted in oil on canvas at 48 x 48 inches, Lucent Drift was created through dozens of translucent layers. Each pass of the brush carried a balance of precision and blur — sharp enough to suggest the edges of light, soft enough to let them dissolve back into the surface.

The palette is intentionally restrained, built from subtle gradations of cool blue and ivory. Thin glazes and feathered blending techniques allow light to appear as though it’s emanating from within the paint itself, giving the composition an inner luminosity that shifts with changing light.

Laura’s Solo Show "Refraction”

Illumine Gallery in Palm Springs, 2025

Lucent Drift was featured in Refraction, Laura’s solo exhibition exploring how light bends, scatters, and transforms across water. Within the series, this piece offered an intimate pause — a distilled reflection of the show’s central theme: light in constant motion.

a note from laura

With Lucent Drift, I wanted to move closer — to let the caustics fill the frame until they became their own landscape. In this scale, the water feels both infinite and intimate; it becomes about the rhythm of light rather than the place itself.

As I painted, I found myself drawn to the spaces where the light fades — those quiet intervals that give the brilliance its shape. The process felt meditative, like tracing something both real and intangible. It’s a painting about presence — about finding calm in the constant drift.