When considering a chromophore dissolved in a volume of liquid solvent, it is commonplace to assume complete homogeneity throughout the solution where each chromophore is geometrically identical and thus has the same electronic structure. However, when considering the interactions between a single chromophore surrounded by a range of solvent molecules on the microscopic scale, many different microenvironments can exist with a distribution of geometric and electronic structures available to each chromophore. At non-zero temperatures, thermal energy ensures that this resulting heterogeneity in the solvation is dynamic and constantly changing. Here, a continuum of ground and excited-state energy levels exists for each chromophore microenvironment. While thermal energy is continually causing fluctuation of these microenvironments, over a long period of time their distribution approaches a statistical equilibrium. During photoexcitation, further variation in solvation occurs for most chromophores due to a difference between the ground and excited-state electron distributions, with dynamic solvent reorganisation rapidly following transitions between ground and excited states. The sum of all these effects manifests as a complex distribution of both static and dynamic solvation of chromophores in different electronic states, far removed from the simple homogenous picture of solvation.