Lis worked in the film industry for a number of years. In 1996 she began a series of vibrant abstract paintings which she exhibited on her return to London in 1998 in her first solo show at the members only Cobden Club in West London. In 2000 she had her second solo exhibition at the Wellcome Trust's Genome Campus in Hinxton, Cambridge and participated in a group show at the Hoax gallery in East London. In these images I've been experimenting with synaesthesia, using relationships between colours to create optical effects which suggest qualities of light, sound and motion such as glowing, radiating, ringing, echoing, vibrating. As the eye travels through the concentric nebulae or auras of colour and rests on the central core of light, these paintings appear to pulse and shimmer in a paradox of movement and stillness.
New colours appear, the layers seem to seperate and float.
I am intrigued by how symbols can convey a number of ideas simultaneously and ny the way the same symbol can mean quite different things to different people. In the material world this shape is manifest in such diverse forms as flames, comets, cells, seeds, petals, fruit, insects, micro-organisms, magnetic fields and drops of liquid.