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Much of Luke's work is created on a robust board – which allows for his very physical approach to painting. He uses paint sculpturally, wrestling to create built texture, reflecting the skies and cliffs. He plays with surface, negative space and reflective areas of calm to balance the scapes – always looking to find places of quiet beauty amongst the chaos. Luke's work is created from memories and loose sketches rather than photographs so as he tries to capture his landscapes, he paints, reworks, sands, lacquers, strips, scrapes, then works and reworks, loses then finds and works back into each painting, crafting each one into a representation of a memory of a memory of what was.
Stealing the show
Drift: 26th February 2020
Q&A interview with Mercedes Smith, read the article here.
Selected Exhibitions
Featured Artist: Whitewater Gallery, May 2020
Barcelona International Gallery Awards 2019 1st Place
From this Land, Thrown Contemporary, Highgate 2019
St Ives Society of Artist Christmas Open Exhibition 2018
166 RWA Open Exhibition, 2018
Cornish Maid, Mawnan Smith, 2015
Fowey River Gallery, 2013
Beside the Wave, Falmouth, 2012
Style 88, Paintworks Bristol; 2007
The Awning Project, Spyglass Gallery Bristol 2007
The Olive Shed, Bristol 2006
The Small Gallery, Hereford 2006
Centerspace Summer Show, Bristol 2005
Adam Gallery, Penarth 2003
Howard Gardens Summer Show, Cardiff; 2003
Hans Brinker Trophy Prize Exhibition, Amsterdam 2002
L’ecole de Beaux Art, Nantes 2002
