Maryann Lucas

Joyous Perseverance

2018

John Morfis was born in Glen Cove, Long Island in 1976. His humble beginnings made pursuing a career in art difficult and paradoxically necessary. Fixated on making things aesthetica...

An oil painting of a group of roses in a slender glass vase; a black background. Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also received ins...

An oil painting of daffodils in a silver vessell. Situated upon a table, before a window. Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also rec...

An oil painting of farm-fresh goods laid on a table with a plaid picnic-print tablecloth. Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also received instruction and support from wonderful and generous members of the East End artistic community. Working exclusively in oils, Lucas sets out almost daily to create plein aire landscapes and seascapes. In her studio, she works directly from life and captures the beauty of natural light as it transforms ordinary objects into visual delights. Lucas wants her work to celebrate all that is well with this world and brilliant in this life, despite its pockets of darkness. For me, she says, I know I am in the Presence of something beautiful, when it steals my breath, silences my mind, pushes out everything else and draws me in. I trust That. I use That to guide my hands as I arrange a still life or scan a landscape to determine where to set down my easel. Ultimately, That is what drives me to paint. Becoming evermore skilled as an oil painter is another of Lucas goals. To that end she remains teachable, finding it refreshing and vital for her own growth to paint with others. She has studied with favorite artists including Michael Klein...

An oil painting a Hydrangea in a vase on a table. Framed in a simple white, floating frame. Maryann Lucas lives and works in Sag Harbor. She is primarily self-taught but has also r...

"Artichokes" is a contemporary realist oil painting still life, with its green and purple hues dominating the neutral surroundings. A rustic wooden bowl holds two whole artichokes, a...

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