Artist Profile Kohlben Vodden

Vodden’s glossy, liquid abstraction elegantly translates reflections into an immersive, undulating depth of light.

Artist Statement

Change is the only constant, the current that carries us from one moment to the next. To resist it is to cling to stillness in a moving stream; to embrace it is to discover flow, renewal, and possibility. Flux explores this truth — that transformation is not disruption, but the natural rhythm of life itself.

The work centres on a luminous turquoise field, achieved through layers of dyed resin: blues that recall water in perpetual motion, and green that signifies growth, decay, and rebirth in endless succession. As these layers merge optically, the surface appears alive – a shifting, liquid depth that never settles, echoing the ceaseless movement of change.

Reflected in the mirrored ground, the viewer finds themselves immersed in this flow, their own image dissolved and reformed within the turquoise light. In this way, Flux becomes both mirror and metaphor: we are shaped and reshaped by change, yet within that constant motion lies continuity – the thread of our becoming.

Flux reminds us that change is not to be feared. It is life’s only permanence, carrying us forward into who we are yet to be.

Artist Biography

Kohlben Vodden is a British-Australian avant-garde artist living and working London, United Kingdom. His evolving practice spans philosophy, psychology, and material experimentation. Initially focused on abstracted figurative oil painting, he now creates abstract conceptual works using dyed resin on reflective surfaces. These immersive pieces invite viewers to recognise distorted versions of themselves among shifting fields of light and colour.

Having visited over 70 countries, Vodden draws on a collective human narrative that transcends borders and cultural identities. His art probes perennial questions about perception, mastery, resilience, and the nature of self through a visual language equally psychological and aesthetic. In 2025 he exhibited at the Saatchi Gallery in London – among his most prominent showings – and has also shown work across Europe, the United States, the Middle East, and Africa, including at the Seattle Art Fair, Dorothy Circus Gallery (London), and Uniquity (Cape Town).

His work has appeared in British VOGUE, Untitled Magazine, and Kaltblut Magazine (as part of its “Class of 2025”). Public installations include ArtistTalk in Times Square, New York. Vodden’s pieces are held in private collections in Hollywood, Melbourne, San Francisco, Zurich, and London. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of the Visual Artists Association (UK).