David Lucas – Artist Website

**‘Horizon Line no.15’ & ‘New Dawn’** on display in the reception gallery and available for acquisition from **Cupola Contemporary** **Art October 2025**

**‘Solway no.5(Shaft of Light)’** on display in **‘JOYFUL’**‘ at **Cupola Contemporary Art**

David Lucas is a contemporary visual artist, who draws inspiration from skies, land, sea, horizons, space, light and shadow. His visual language involves expressive gestural mark making and painterly abstraction, using intense colour, line, and shape.

**‘Solway no.4(Shaft of Light)’** on display at **Cupola Contemporary Art**

‘Solway no.4(Shaft of Light)’ on display during the installation of ‘Cornucopia’, a selected group exhibition at Cupola Contemporary Art

**‘Solway no.2(Shaft of Light)’** on display in **UBUNTU** at **Cupola Contemporary Art**

During lockdown a private collector acquired ‘Solway no.2(Shaft of Light)’ with the money he would have spent on a visit to Africa, he said the painting reminded him of African skies. Emerging out of the ‘Shaft of Light’ series the ‘Solway’ series has sought to reconnect with the landscape of North Cumbria.

‘Tidal Pattern’ the final painting in the ‘Wave Lines’ series was created out of a body of work that reflected on the rhythms and cycles of the marine ecosystem and mankind’s effect on it. See below.

**‘Tidal Pattern’**, on display: **‘UNDERCURRENTS’** at **Cupola Contemporary Art**

The ‘Shaft of Light’ series explores light and the journey it makes from the sun. See below

**‘Shaft of Light no.12’** on display in **‘SYMBOL’** at **Cupola Contemporary Art**

Another visit to Manchester Central(GMEX)originally Manchester Central Railway Station, in the Castlefield district. A nineteenth century Railway Terminus readapted as a venue and ideal for hosting a large-scale art fair. See below

**Stand 420**, **David Lucas at Manchester Art Fair 2018, Manchester Central(GMEX)**

**Stand 30 David Lucas** at **The Other Art Fair** Old Truman Brewery **London 2014**

**‘Horizon Line no.10’** on display in **‘Artificial Light’** at **Cupola Contemporary Art 2011**

‘Paintings by David Lucas’ was held at The Circle getting a positive review by Ian Soutar, ‘Lucas Goes Solo for Circle Show’ in the Sheffield Telegraph: “For 20 years Lucas worked in former city centre industrial premises and then in 2006 he relocated to a barn in Rivelin Valley. “This was a welcome contrast to the urban bustle and it marked a change in my work. The environment had a subtle effect on my imagination and subsequently my painting. I think I have become more in tune with the tones and colours and seasonal change in the city’s border with the countryside particularly Rivelin Valley and out to Derbyshire.”

Installing **‘Paintings by David Lucas’** at **The Circle**

A private collector acquired ‘Bloom no.1′(See Below-bottom left), having first seen it at Manchester Art Fair. It was a hefty investment for her but she’d fallen in love with the painting at first sight. After paying a deposit, I enabled the sale by accepting installments and although the art fair took place at the end of October, it was in her home in time for Christmas.

**Stand 166 David Lucas at Manchester Art Fair**, Spinningfields, Manchester

‘ Fragments ‘at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre took place during heavy rains in 2007 when cracks were found in the Ulley Reservoir walls prompting the evacuation of the local area and closing the M1. Communications were cut from North Lincolnshire Council Offices when their basement was flooded affecting computer infrastructure. See below.

**FRAGMENTS at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre** (Entrance)’Horizon Line no.14′, ‘Curve’, ‘Redshift no.s 2 & 3’, ‘Horizon Lines no.s 10-13’ (far end)

‘Horizon Lines no.s 10-13’ from the series, comprising of sixteen paintings, featured in ‘Fragments’, and displayed as a four panelled artwork.

**FRAGMENTS at 20-21 Visual Arts Centre**-‘Horizon Lines’, ‘Redshift no.s 3 & 2’; ‘Curve’, and ‘Horizon Line no.14’ (far end)

**‘Stormbloom’, ‘Horizon Line no.15’, and ‘Lightshift’** on display at **20-21 Visual Arts Centre**

Opening our Rural studio in Rivelin Valley to the public, and despite it being in the middle of a field seven miles from central Sheffield myself and the sculptor Alex Shorey received hundreds of visitors.

**OPEN UP** at **Blackbrook Barn**, a Light Aircraft Hangar **2007**

As project manager I took the artwork of six bloc studio holders to Glasgow Art Fair, when the gallery now known as Bloc Projects was establishing itself.

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