Helen Smith’s new Arc drawings explore how light, colour, and movement can subtly shift the way we see. Inspired by oscillations in physics, the works trace arcs of colour across a grid, gently unsettling the flatness of the surface and introducing a sense of visual play.

As the eye moves across each composition, colour appears to vibrate, overlap, and pulse, creating optical effects that feel both precise and unpredictable. The drawings seem to change depending on where you stand, inviting viewers to look slowly and attentively.

This real—or imagined—sense of motion produces a lively back-and-forth between stability and fluctuation, surface and depth. In doing so, the Arc drawings offer a quiet but dynamic meditation on perception as something always in motion.