You Are the Light: from the Old Masters to PlatiGleam

A free online talk by painter Nelson Ferreira on how the great masters painted light, and how that led to his night paintings of sacred UNESCO World Heritage temples. In this free online talk, Luso-British painter Nelson Ferreira looks at how painters from the Flemish Primitives to the 19th-century academies captured light, and how that tradition led him to PlatiGleam: paintings that only appear when you become the light source.

He’ll share some stories behind his night paintings of sacred UNESCO World Heritage sites: Batalha Monastery in Portugal (begun in 1386), Borobudur in Indonesia, the largest Buddhist temple in the world (built around 1,200 years ago), and Angkor Wat in Cambodia (around 900 years old, and covering about 162 hectares).

His PlatiGleam paintings are part of the permanent collections at Batalha Monastery and Borobudur, and are currently on show at Portugal’s National Pantheon in Lisbon, alongside Paula Rego. Over 1.8 million…