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 during the installation of ‘Cornucopia’, a selected group exhibition 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.
The ‘Shaft of Light’ series explores light and the journey it makes from the sun. See below
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
‘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.”
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.
‘ 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.
‘Horizon Lines no.s 10-13’ from the series was featured in ‘Fragments’, and displayed as a four panelled artwork.
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.
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.
