Lila Fernan's vivid abstract expressionism reveals a deep concern with both somber weightiness and an irrepressible urge toward flight. Her paintings repeatedly explore the fluidity of boundaries, and the degrees of coherence between form and background. Coal-gray tones are balanced by flame-like detailing, with a tension created between the fullness of the dark colors with the striving of the lighter colors. Her repeated exploration of a central spiral shape placed against an opposing color reveals the pathos in her works, the obsession at the heart of being human.

Lila values the repeated exploration of the same emotional and psychological territory, the same narrative which is implied in her works. She makes use of the possibilities in her art form to explore themes of personal vulnerability, intuition and the challenges of craft. Both a source of frenetic energy as well as personal centeredness, Lila Fernan's work frequently reveals a mind deeply in touch with the human state of ambivalence.