Penelope Wakeham’s work builds a bridge between painting and the digital image. It’s about a translation of the transparent, sumptuous quality of light and colour we see everywhere on our mobiles, iPads, monitors, TV & film.  She explores the way digital images are created with light filled pixels, in many virtual layers, where the spaces are as important as the forms.

Wakeham talks of her need to get her hands on the image she has created, taking possession of it, freeing it and shaping it.  Recreating it as a physical material piece of work that preserves the translucent coloured light of the back-lit screen.

Her current work explores the more intuitive interface of tablet computers such as the iPad, which allow the use of fingers for mark making.  She is creating large-scale physical work from a hand held maker of virtual images.

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