Lois Wallace's paintings explore the metaphor of Light, its transparent and spiritual qualities, and our associations with it. The landscape paintings go beyond a portrayal of the natural world and embrace elements of irony and kitsch, exploring the boundaries of landscape painting to the edge of cliché¼.

This body of work takes its source in photographic images. Wallace exaggerates the colour and light to such an extent that the viewer is overwhelmed by these two subjects and can see nothing else. This intensity reinforces in some way their temporariness, and that of the world they inhabit.

These quiet evocative paintings depict a world that is suggestive of the ordinary but which conveys an ethereal sense of the fragile, transient nature of existence. The viewer feels privileged to glimpse these scenes, the representation of Wallace's imagination.