“My work is deeply rooted in a visual awareness of the physical world, but it is rarely made directly from life. I use the subject of landscape as a point of departure rather than one of arrival. Each painting begins with inspiration collected from sketches, photographs, sentiments, memories, or emotional experiences. Visual references may be used in the initial stages of the painting process but are eventually set aside to allow the work to evolve on its own, without a mandated conclusion.

Paintings may be reminiscent of a specific place; however, through an exaggeration of gesture and the manipulation of color and space, my artwork favors the emotional experience of the painting over visual realism. My paintings invite viewers to explore our human tendency to name and seek certainty in everything. We want to know we are right. We want to know we are going to be okay. We want resolution, absolutes, security. Within all the uncertainty cast upon us lies the very nature and beauty of life itself.

As I considered the theme of weathering, I thought about its near-endless manifestations throughout nature. Each transformation requires a certain amount of vulnerability, patience, and time. And yet, how seldom we stop to consider how long it took for a specific landscape to appear as it does: the shape of a coastline, the sides of a canyon, valleys carved into the land, the growth within a forest. If we pay attention, weathering reveals an act of acceptance and a beauty in the power of remaining.”

Lindsey Luna Tucker (b. 1990) is an artist based in Charlottesville, Virginia. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in 2017 from Georgia State University. Through an exaggeration of gesture and the manipulation of color and space, she uses the subject of landscape as a point of departure rather than one of arrival. Tucker’s abstract landscapes favor emotional truth over visual realism and invite viewers to challenge their understanding of certainty and absolutes. She has been awarded artist residencies with Lawayaka Current, Saint Gertrude’s Monastery, and Phaeton Gallery. She is represented by Camellia Art Gallery in Hilton Head, South Carolina. Her work is held in private collections throughout North America, Europe, and Australia.