Nigh On Saturn is one of 5 artworks from the series The Colour of Feeling by Thomas Lisle. The collection is made up of reflections on psychological, environmental and philosophical ideas that inspire Lisle, combined with the ideas and techniques about the future of painting in the digital realm. The animations are attempts to make animated digital paintings which have visual dynamism, beauty and energy. Each piece can be seen as a representation of a psychological 'complex'; the easiest way to describe a 'complex' is a 'structure of the psyche that gathers together similar feeling-toned elements'.

'Night on Saturn' relates to my interest in abstract figurative art since I was a student. I wanted to make a piece that was abstract and yet semi-realistic. I wanted to make paint strokes that related back to the character, and without a recognisable character, that's hard. One of my all-time favourite films is "Alphaville" by Jean Luc Goddard, and there's a scene where Lemmy Caution lights a cigarette in the dark; it's just a great cinematic moment. There's an element of Goddard's approach to narrative in the longer version called Love's Journey. It's a kind of abstract narrative that somehow makes sense when it's all put together. Something deeper emerges that's hard to put into words at the beginning of the process, which is working away to become clearer at the end, not in the sense of love's individual journey that's unknowable, but in the narrative of the animation." - Thomas Lisle