Still Life.
Rendered with light.

Christopher Bolwyn spent the formative decades of his career inside the rendering pipelines of the world’s most technically exacting animation studios. At PIXAR, he worked on the problem of light — how it bends through glass, blooms off skin, and scatters through fur — with a rigorous, mathematical commitment that few disciplines demand.

When he came to oil painting, he brought that expertise whole. His still lifes are exercises in the same problems he spent his career solving in software — the translucency of amber glass, the specular highlights off hammered copper, the bloom of a dahlia petal. He is also a father of three, and he paints for them too.