{"id":8205,"date":"2025-06-16T10:55:34","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:55:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/?p=8205"},"modified":"2025-06-16T10:56:01","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T10:56:01","slug":"lines-of-thought-painting-across-mediums","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/lines-of-thought-painting-across-mediums\/","title":{"rendered":"Lines of Thought: painting across mediums"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Niio Editorial<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>British artist <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thomaslisle.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Thomas Lisle<\/a><\/strong> has long explored the frontier where painting meets digital media, creating a compelling fusion of tradition and innovation. With a career spanning over four decades, his work seamlessly integrates analog techniques with immersive digital processes. Currently, Galeria Maior in Pollen\u00e7a is presenting <em>Lines of Thought<\/em>, a solo exhibition curated by Pau Waelder. This body of work is complemented by an artcast on Niio, offering audiences a deeper insight into Lisle\u2019s hybrid practice of \u201ctime-based paintings\u201d and dynamic compositions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We spoke with the artist about his creative process, the interplay between digital and physical media, and how his works evolve across dimensions and time. This brief three-question interview offers readers a quick dive into Lisle\u2019s work, which can be further explored in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/thomas-lisle-on-3d-painting-abstraction-and-punk-rock\/\">a longer interview<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.niio.com\/blog\/digital-art-time-painting-sculpture-and-consciousness\/\">an essay by the artist<\/a>, both published in Niio Editorial.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:38px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position: relative;height: 0;overflow: hidden; padding: 0 0 56.25% 0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"niio-media-frame\" id=\"niioWidget1\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.niio.com\/1.1\/index.html?showinfo=false&amp;urlType=share&amp;autoplay=false&amp;mute=true&amp;hidefullscreen=true&amp;controls=true&amp;hideinfobtn=true&amp;artworkid=62608&amp;portrait=false&amp;key=62BQIV9HC8&amp;invitationCode=lgskxzsiu7l31fg\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"position: absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height: 100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:18px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>View of the exhibition &#8220;Lines of Thought&#8221; by Thomas Lisle at Galeria Maior in Pollen\u00e7a (Mallorca, Spain).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:72px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Your exhibition <\/strong><strong><em>Lines of Thought<\/em><\/strong><strong> showcases both physical and digital works. Can you tell us how these two forms are connected in your process?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In this series, the digital paintings came first. Using the 3D animation software, I painted a series of tubular shapes, similar to pencil lines but with volume. These I could edit, move around, and change in any way I wanted. When I was happy with these elements, I converted the tubular shapes into simulated liquids and set different parts of each of them to have different values of mass, viscosity, and so on.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The pencil lines thus became a liquid simulation (using complex mathematics developed by others). I turned the gravity to zero in most pieces but not all: in some of the pieces several paint strokes have gravity and others don&#8217;t. Then in some of the artworks I animated a brushstroke over time, moving across the virtual canvas and interacting with other paint elements. The main themes of this series of artworks are about dynamic compositions and forms, as well as contrasts of colour, forms, mass, and movement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:32px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position: relative;height: 0;overflow: hidden; padding: 0 0 56.25% 0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"niio-media-frame\" id=\"niioWidget1\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.niio.com\/1.1\/index.html?showinfo=false&amp;urlType=share&amp;autoplay=false&amp;mute=true&amp;hidefullscreen=true&amp;controls=true&amp;hideinfobtn=true&amp;artworkid=62468&amp;portrait=false&amp;key=AR7ZVFTC9N&amp;invitationCode=5oqe4tldth98d1d\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"position: absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height: 100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas Lisle. <em>Currents<\/em>, 2025<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:44px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The next step was the animation of the liquid paints: to do that I built complex invisible forces that push the liquids around. I spent a lot of time trying out different combinations of forces and the settings controlling the liquids, until I got the results I aimed for, that have a visual, painterly meaning to me. I think about these compositions in terms of relationships and abstractions that I think could make either a great painting and\/or a good animation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For the paintings I took specific moments of the animation where I felt that the composition, colour, and forms are the best and then I used that image as the basis for a painting. So all the process that I described above has also been carried out considering this last stage in which the animation can become an oil painting on canvas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:42px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"position: relative;height: 0;overflow: hidden; padding: 0 0 56.25% 0;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"niio-media-frame\" id=\"niioWidget1\" src=\"https:\/\/embed.niio.com\/1.1\/index.html?showinfo=false&amp;urlType=share&amp;autoplay=false&amp;mute=true&amp;hidefullscreen=true&amp;controls=true&amp;hideinfobtn=true&amp;artworkid=62474&amp;portrait=false&amp;key=99ROL1SIBD&amp;invitationCode=x1ltt3bwtrrr15v\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\" webkitallowfullscreen=\"\" mozallowfullscreen=\"\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" style=\"position: absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height: 100%;\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:22px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Thomas Lisle. <em>Flotsam,<\/em> 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:100px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>You describe these animations as \u201ctime-based paintings.\u201d What makes this digital approach painterly in your view?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What makes them painterly is the visual language they inherit from traditional painting\u2014color, composition, gesture\u2014but reimagined in motion and time. Each animation is a dynamic abstraction, shaped by invisible forces I program to manipulate the virtual paint. I spend a lot of time adjusting these forces and liquid parameters to create meaningful visual relationships\u2014whether it\u2019s through tension, mass, or movement. These aren&#8217;t just technical effects; they\u2019re part of a painterly exploration, extended into the temporal realm.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-pullquote\"><blockquote><p><strong>\u201cIn the digital 3D space, lines evolve; they can be manipulated in ways unimaginable even 20 years ago.\u201d<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>What does the idea of a \u201cline\u201d mean in this body of work, especially given the title <\/strong><strong><em>Lines of Thought<\/em><\/strong><strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The line is foundational here\u2014both as a visual element and as a metaphor. Traditionally, lines have been the building blocks of drawings and paintings. In the digital 3D space, lines evolve; they can be manipulated in ways unimaginable even 20 years ago. In my process, lines are the genesis of everything: they become forms, masses, and ultimately, flowing simulations. Conceptually, the title <em>Lines of Thought<\/em> speaks to both this visual structure and the algorithmic logic behind digital creation\u2014almost like thinking made visible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Lines of Thought<\/em> is on view at Galeria Maior, Pollen\u00e7a, throughout June 2025. 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