Allis Island Painting

http://www.lucascann.com/#present Lucas Cann has been painting and sculpted for as long as he can remember. He mainly developed his painting/sculpting technique behind the scenes, during the years he was occupied by other professional activities. As a young man he spent one day at the academy, only to find out that this wasn’t an environment in which he was going to blossom. He chose to go his own way as an autodidact. Only now, around his sixtieth, does he come fore with his work, enriched by all the technical knowledge he assembled during the past years, and inspired by a richly filled life with scars here and there, lasting traces of less happy moments, as we all carry along.Lucas Cann is a professional who loves to show his mastery. At the same time, he is a true artistic soul for whom a daily stay in the studio is essential. “It’s my greatest consolation, I’m lost without the ability to create,” he admits. His work acts as a kind of healing, an opportunity to anoint the soul. Rarely, however, is it pure pleasure.” Creating is not the best thing on earth for me. I go through too many emotions. But if it wasn’t a struggle, then I was just a commission painter. Painting for me is an urge that has become a compulsion. I want to paint better every day.” Never shallow, always to the bottom, grabbling in the humus layer of our mind, that characterizes the work of Lucas Cann.