Rhea Quien, Author at Light Art For Nature

Birds at Dawn

September 6, 2023 by Rhea Quien

This morning I awoke just after six o'clock. In the silence, a blackbird was singing in a tree near the back garden, clear and beautiful. Just one bird song. Forty years ago, the dawn chorus here was so intense that one could hardly distinguish one bird song from another, and there was a diversity of ... Read more

You Never Know

June 22, 2023June 22, 2023 by Rhea Quien

When Rhea creates light art, she never knows what will appear for it is a very spontaneous process. She was most surprised, for example, to see what looks like a face appear in the light image below. In 2018 Kip Loades joined Rhea in her studio to film light art. For most of the time ... Read more

Crystals and the Human Body

February 21, 2023February 20, 2023 by Rhea Quien

Doctor Steve Zhang works at the Department of Chemical Engineering at the University of Cambridge, designing porous crystals for the chiral drug separation process. He is also very interested in crystallography, which is a branch of science that deals with determining the arrangement and bonding of atoms in crystalline solids, in order to study their ... Read more

Happy New Year!

February 21, 2023January 10, 2023 by Rhea Quien

Dear friends of the Dance of Light project. We wish you a Happy New Year as we move through the darkness and towards the growing light in the Northern hemisphere. This water colour sketch was painted in the high Alps of Switzerland, a place of great inspiration for Rhea Quien, director of Dance of Light. ... Read more

Birth Dream Series – Holding (38/41)

August 18, 2022July 5, 2022 by Rhea Quien

Birth Dream Painting Series - Holding (38/41)

In our last post we looked at Eruption from the Birth Dream series. This time, we are looking at a painting called Holding, from later on in the same series. Birth Dream comprises of 41 paintings by Rhea Quien, which she began in 1995 and completed in 1998. The images Rhea has created outline a ... Read more

Birth Dream Series – Eruption (4/41)

August 18, 2022May 22, 2022 by Rhea Quien

Birth Dream Painting Series - Eruption (4/41)

Birth Dream is a series of 41 paintings by Rhea Quien, begun in 1995 and completed in 1998. The images she has created outline a journey through life's cycles, and are related to myth and the dream world. Archetypal in nature, the paintings and text highlight transformation through birth, love and death, thus indicating a ... Read more

Master of Ease

August 18, 2022March 21, 2020 by Rhea Quien

Creating our reality 'Master of Ease' by Rhea Quien, is a short, imaginative story for older children and adults about how our choices make a difference to the reality we create; how our thoughts can create our reality. This might seem like a challenging time to believe this. We have been ordered to radically and ... Read more

An interview with Dr Richard Povall

August 18, 2022January 27, 2020 by Rhea Quien

| art.earth | Dr Richard Povall focusses on the world around him and has a keen and unique interest in nature. He is one of the directors of art.earth: an international "family of ecological artists." Richard has a diverse and impressive past as a sound artist, researcher, educator and ecologist. He has had a colourful ... Read more

Winter Solstice

February 21, 2023December 13, 2019 by Rhea Quien

Kris, Lynsey, Nicky and Rhea - the Dance of Light team - wish you all a Happy Solstice. In the northern part of the world, we find ourselves in the darkest time of the year. A time when we mark the shortest day and longest night by celebrating, and looking forward to, the eventual return ... Read more

Poems from a Mountain Retreat

February 21, 2023November 28, 2019 by Rhea Quien

A Creative Unfolding The Himalayas and the Alps are two massive mountain ranges. The Himalayas separate the land from Tibet to the north, and the plains of India to the south. The Alps separate much of northern Europe from the south. I grew up in both and, like many, enjoy returning to where I started ... Read more