Paintings by Shayla Maddox

Shayla Maddox’s paintings are not projection-mapped or powered by LEDs. They are infused with what the artist says are “the strongest [phosphorescent] pigments available,” making them much more than just glow-in-the-dark. “The color changes with the seasons and weather,” she explains to The Creators Project. “What looks one way when it’s sunny will change slightly when it’s overcast. The angle of the sun in winter highlights different elements than in summer. A person standing to the right will see something different than someone standing to the left.”

Maddox acheives this effect by using unwieldy phosphorescent paint which she  spreads in thin layers, mixed with standard acryllics, onto a canvas, letting them dry completely in between each round. In depicting anything from a swarm of 159,000 hand-painted dots to a glowing rendition of Middle Earth, she incorporates crushed gass and other “light-reactive” materials to give the paintings an almost sculptural element of three-dimensionality.

Painting Titles from Top to Bottom: “Warning- Fiery Red modern Landscape, Sunrise Sunset”; “Echo”; “Terraforming Mars”; “Doorway to a Thousand Churches”; “Frequency”; “Break the Chains”