STILL LIGHT
4 DECEMBER - 28 FEBRUARY 2026 AT EYE ROOM LINDSEY
TYSON & LOUISE VENTRIS
THE ART COURT X
EYE ROOM
The Art Court was founded in 2022 by Courtney Spencer to sell, source and commission art for public and private settings across the North of England.
We curate temporary exhibitions in beautiful spaces throughout Yorkshire, offering a welcoming and accessible way to discover and buy contemporary art. We believe that living with art you connect with can enrich your everyday life. By getting to know your taste, space, budget and practical needs, we help you find artwork that feels just right.
We’re delighted to continue our collaboration with Eye Room. This is the eigth in a series of quarterly exhibitions hosted by the independent optician in their Scandinavian-style space in Leeds city centre. Already known for their carefully curated range of eyewear and distinctive sense of style, these exhibitions bring something extra to a visit, whether you’re browsing frames or discovering new artists.
The exhibition is open to all and can be enjoyed in person six days a week or through this online catalogue. It has been made possible thanks to the support of the artists involved, The Art Court, Eye Room and Leeds City Council.
OPENING TIMES
Mon - Fri, 10 am - 6 pm Sat 10 am - 5 pm All welcome
Eye Room, 9 Mill Hill, Leeds LS1 5DQ
INTRO
For both Louise Ventris and Lindsey Tyson, light is not simply a subject but a living presence within their work. Each approaches it as something to be felt as much as seen, a shifting energy that shapes colour, form, and mood. Whether emerging through the fleeting glow of headlights or the quiet shimmer of layered pigment, light becomes a means of connection between the external world and inner experience.
Louise’s paintings are grounded in observation yet deeply atmospheric. She often begins with familiar, unremarkable places such as suburban streets, junctions, and the edges of car parks. Her interest lies not in documenting them but in capturing the elusive moment when light transforms the ordinary into something almost cinematic. “I’m drawn to the way light alters what we think we see,” she once said. “It turns the everyday into something momentary and fleeting.” Her surfaces balance clarity and dissolution, a car half-absorbed by mist or a street disappearing into the glare of a setting sun, and this play between control and surrender gives her paintings their quiet tension.
While Louise works from memory and reconstruction, Lindsey’s process begins with material and intuition. She describes painting as a meditative act, a slow unfolding of energy through texture and transparency. “I often begin with no fixed image in mind,” she has said, “allowing the materials to lead, to reveal something that feels both physical and ethereal.” Through delicate layering of paint, pigment, and encaustic wax, she builds surfaces that evoke the rhythms of weather, landscape, and emotion. Her works suggest
light as an inner force rather than an external one, something that seems to rise from beneath the surface rather than coming from the sky above.
Both artists are deeply attuned to the passage of time within their work. Louise captures the instant that passes almost unnoticed, the flash of reflection in a wet road, the moment before day collapses into night. Her paintings are grounded in movement and transition, holding stillness in motion. Lindsey, by contrast, works through duration. Her paintings accumulate slowly, each layer of pigment recording time, thought, and change. Both are concerned with transformation, how perception, memory, and emotion shift and reform like light itself.
Their shared sensitivity to atmosphere connects them to their surroundings. As painters based in Yorkshire, they are familiar with the northern light across the region, soft, low, and changeable, veiling the landscape one moment and breaking through the next. This quality of light, both cool and luminous, shapes their palettes and sense of space. In different ways, they capture what it means to live within a landscape defined by flux, weather, and space for reflection.
Lindsey’s work has long explored the physical and emotional resonance of materials. Drawing on her background in textile design, she often works instinctively, treating surface as something tactile and responsive. In earlier conversations she
has spoken about her fascination with translucency and light – how even subtle layers of paint can create depth and nuance, inviting the viewer to look more closely.
Louise’s relationship to paint is equally sensual but rooted in structure. She is precise about composition, constantly adjusting the balance between clarity and atmosphere. She said, “It’s about finding what’s essential, and letting everything else dissolve.”
Placed together, their paintings create a conversation between observation and sensation, external and internal light. Louise’s scenes open outward, connecting to the world around us, while Lindsey’s draw us inward to spaces of reflection. Both share an impulse to slow down the act of looking, encouraging the viewer to experience light as something mutable and alive.
Still Light brings these sensibilities together at a time of year when light itself feels precious, low, fleeting, and fragile. The exhibition offers a moment of quiet attention, a reminder of how illumination can alter not only what we see but how we feel. In this meeting of two painters, light becomes both subject and metaphor, a trace, a presence, and a way of understanding the world anew.
LINDSEY TYSON
B. 1964, HOWDEN, UK
Lindsey Tyson is a visual artist based in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, where she also grew up. With a background in textile design and more than three decades of creative experience, she began her career in the automotive industry designing woven fabrics. She later developed a successful practice in contemporary textile art. A deep love of texture, materiality and process runs through all her work and continues to shape her creative outlook. In recent years she has turned her focus fully to painting, bringing the same curiosity, craftsmanship and sensitivity to surface that have always defined her approach.
Lindsey’s current practice centres on abstract mixed media painting that draws inspiration from elemental forces in the landscape, including shifting light, weathered surfaces and the steady rhythm of nature. Her work is both intuitive and physical, shaped through layers of paint,
texture and energy. Marks are swept, scraped and erased in ways that echo the forces that shape the land itself.
Her paintings seek not to depict a particular place but to distil atmosphere, charting the meeting point between an external landscape and an internal response. Process lies at the heart of her work, with each layer building a sense of history and depth. The surfaces often reveal quiet traces of earlier marks that hold a feeling of time, tension and transformation.
Lindsey was awarded Women in ArtEmerging Abstract Artist award in 2023, reflecting the growing impact of her practice. Through her contemplative approach she creates works that invite close looking and a deeper engagement with subtleties of presence and change.
LOUISE VENTRIS
B. 1967 WIRRAL, UK
Louise Ventris is a painter based in Holmfirth, West Yorkshire. She studied Fine Art at the University of the West of England in the late nineteen eighties before building a career that spanned art teaching and later digital design. Throughout these years she continued painting whenever possible, often balancing her practice with the demands of work, family life and raising children. This long experience of time scarcity has become an enduring theme in her work, shaping both her subject matter and her way of seeing.
Louise’s paintings focus on the charged but often overlooked moments within urban life, particularly those found in “dead time” such as commuting, idling at junctions or navigating traffic. In these suspended
instants she notices shifts in light, movement, colour and mood, and transforms them into atmospheric townscapes. Her process is intuitive and physical, working in oils to build and scrape back layers, allowing the image to settle gradually between realism and abstraction.
She exhibits regularly in open and group exhibitions, including Contemporary Six’s Coalescence, the Mercer Open, Leeds Summer Show and Old Parcels Office in Scarborough. She is an associate member of the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts, and her practice continues to evolve as she deepens her exploration of the urban environment and its quiet, momentary intensities.
23 Minutes Past 4 (2024)
Oil on canvas
61 x 61cm
£800
LOUISE VENTRIS
LOUISE VENTRIS
Two Suns (2024)
Oil on canvas
61 x 61cm
£800
Beyond (2025)
Oil on panel
32 x 32cm
£400
LOUISE VENTRIS
32 x 32cm
£400
LOUISE VENTRIS
Metalic Grey Day (2025)
Oil on panel
Still 15 (2025)
Ink and encaustic on wood
15 x 15cm
£175
Still 9 (2025)
Ink and encaustic on wood
15 x 15cm
£175
LINDSEY TYSON
LINDSEY TYSON
Still39 (2025)
Ink and encaustic on wood
15 x 15cm
£175
Still 5 (2025)
Ink and encaustic on wood
15 x 15cm
£175
LINDSEY TYSON
LINDSEY TYSON
Sea Study 16 (2024)
Mixed media on wood
15 x 15cm
£175
LINDSEY TYSON
Sea Study 12 (2024)
Mixed media on wood
15 x 15cm
£175
LINDSEY TYSON
LINDSEY TYSON
Sea Study 27 (2024)
Mixed media on wood
15 x 15cm
£175
LINDSEY TYSON
Sea Study 6 (2024)
Mixed media on wood
15 x 15cm
£175
Departure (2023)
Oil on panel
22 x 22cm
£300
LOUISE VENTRIS
Oil on panel
22 x 22cm
£300
LOUISE VENTRIS
Long Royd (2023)
Encasutic and mixed media on wood
61 x 61cm
£1,200
LINDSEY TYSON
Vetruvia (2024)
LINDSEY TYSON Aether (2025) Mixed media on wood
51 x 51cm
£975
Ink
31 x 31cm
£450
Ink and encaustic
31 x 31cm
£450
LINDSEY TYSON
Echo (2025)
and encaustic on wood
LINDSEY TYSON Fade (2025)
on wood
Mixed media on wood
£2,400
LINDSEY TYSON
Penumbra (2025)
91 x 91cm
Great Ducie Street (2023)
Oil on panel
61 x 61cm
£800
LOUISE VENTRIS
Insurrection (2025)
Oil on panel
32 x 32cm
£400
Friday Night (2025)
Oil on panel
32 x 32cm
£400
LOUISE VENTRIS
LOUISE VENTRIS
M1
Oil on panel
21 x 16cm
£200
Urban
Oil on paper
27 x 22cm
£325
LOUISE VENTRIS
Pink (2025)
LOUISE VENTRIS
Red (2023)
Oil
22 x 22cm
£300
LOUISE VENTRIS
Deadlock (2023)
on panel
46 x 46cm
LINDSEY TYSON
Mantle (2025)
Mixed media on wood
£875
LINDSEY TYSON
Faultline (2025)
Mixed media on wood
46 x 46cm
£875
LINDSEY TYSON
Inquiry 54 (2024)
Mixed media on wood
20 x 20cm
£250
LINDSEY TYSON
Inquiry 17 (2024)
Mixed media on wood
15 x 15cm
£175
LINDSEY TYSON
Inquiry 38 (2024)
Mixed media on wood
15 x 15cm
£175
LINDSEY TYSON
Inquiry 41 (2024)
Mixed media on wood
15 x 15cm
£175
LINDSEY TYSON
Strong Winds (2025)
Mixed media on paper on wood
26 x 26cm
£375
LINDSEY TYSON
Murmur (2025)
Mixed media on wood
31 x 31cm
£450
The exhibition is also available to view in person at Eye Room.
OPENING TIMES
Mon - Fri, 10am - 6pm Sat 10am - 5pm All welcome
Eye Room, 9 Mill Hill, Leeds LS1 5DQ
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