Lighting design is the enhanced presentation of form and space.

Most people spend their lives working in an environment that is visually boring, surrounded by an exterior climate that is often cloudy and overcast. This influences our sense of well-being and can impair our attitude to work, shopping and recreation.

Visual stimulation through visual vitality and variety is therefore of the utmost importance. Theatrical lighting practice is built on visual stimulation. It enhances form through the use of texture, direction and colour to reveal a design in the most stimulating way. It creates many differing looks that suit mood to circumstance.

The best lighting can learn much from nature. A leafy courtyard observed from dawn to dusk on a sunny day will provide a background of continually changing hues, shapes and textures that are both psychologically stimulating and never dull. Today's state of the art equipment can reproduce all the facets of nature in any setting with any degree of reality or stylisation.