My current project explores how reflections, transparencies, and the incidental can influence my work. I’m interested in how materials like resin, acrylic, plaster, and reflective film interact with light and gravity to create spaces that feel alive and constantly changing. The materials do not just function as tools for me; rather, they become a partner in the making, bringing with them a voice and behaviour of their own. The outputs that I get from my subject are often unpredictable. More beautiful is the way in which they lead me towards something that I could not have planned myself.
Building on earlier experiments of carving acrylic sheets and filling them with colored resin, my recent pieces welcome accidents as part of the creative process. Cracks, flows, bending, and distortion of light appear of their own accord, but they have come to dominate the visual logic of my work. It signifies a balance between control and letting something go, intention and substance. These chance moments shift my approach from constructing fixed forms to observing matter as it forms itself.
I’m interested in creating environments where light, material and perception meet and engage. My works produce shifting spatial experiences for viewers as they observe how reflections and colours change. Through this process, painting becomes more open and alive – a coexistence of human perception and the living presence of materials, where every reflection and movement reveals a new level of visual dialogue.
Jimmy Zheng 