Beth Lukas
ART & ILLUSTRATION
About the artist
Beth Lukas is an abstract and figurative painter. Her work often features metallic accents, limited palettes, and focuses on both psychological and literal landscapes. Her work has been shown at local galleries in Seattle including Ghost Gallery and Greenwood Art Collective. She is currently seeking representation and exhibition opportunities for her latest series; Nature, Instinct and Memory, which explores our sensory experience of birds in nature, using dynamic shape, color and line.
Her education includes a Fine Art/Painting major at the College for Creative Studies in Detroit, and an AA in Design and Illustration at Seattle Central Community College. She has worked on commissions for private collectors for 30 years, and has been professionally guiding clients in their visual branding for 20 years before shifting her practice to include abstract works in 2018. Her current practice explores blending her figurative and abstract work in new and unexpected ways.
On the Easel
See what I’m working on now. It’s a messy, imperfect peek at my process, kind of like a studio visit.
Artist Statement
Stillness, inner landscapes & loss are recurring themes in my latest collection, “Nature, Instinct and Memory”
These works are inspired by the sounds and motion we just barely catch as we walk in nature. Sometimes I’m sharing specific impressions of a Scrub Jay visiting my balcony, sometimes the memory of a fleeting glimpse of creatures moving too fast to be seen.
Abstraction allows me to communicate my sensory experience and explore my own inherent style of mark making and non-rational visual instinct.
This series is bittersweet for me, as my connection to nature and love for the wildlife of the Northwest is tinged with fire smoke and the reality of habitat loss. Memory, and the loss of it, are tied in as I connect and make sense of the loss of my father to Alzheimer’s, and my sister’s lost memories due to a brain trauma. How we recall our experiences of joy and wonder can shift, the details will change or be lost, but some part of that wonder will still live on within our sense memories.
Dark-Eyed Junco, Acrylic on Canvas, 2023
English