BOUNTIFUL — Modern art is usually meant to be more felt than understood, and takes the beauty of a geometric shape or the emotion evoked by the pairing of two colors as its true subject.

For artist Scott Durrant, whose work is being featured at Bountiful’s Lamplight Gallery now through the end of the month, the desire for feeling and exploration combine in a dizzying array of work. Clean geometric lines and playful patterns give way to fluid shapes and shimmering colors, as if Durrant’s only goal was to capture his imagination at any given moment.

Durrant’s exhibit is essentially divided into three separate areas, with more finished and formalized work at the windows and a collection of what appear to be smaller, experimental pieces just inside the front doors. Though the more formal work alternates between elegance and structural beauty, it’s the more experimental pieces that draw the eye. Here he plays with both the old and new, creating swirls that look almost organic and deceptively simple color pieces that look like the hide of a fantastical zebra.

The exhibit’s crown jewel, however, gets a space all to itself along the gallery’s back wall. Several different paintings in a variety of sizes have been hung together so that they appear to be one large, shimmering work. The central painting has three-dimensional tendrils that radiate out like the exploding heart of a sun, radiating its light back and forth among the smaller work.