Jacob Lucas

Through the process of painting with oils on canvas, Jacob Lucas creates vibrant and otherworldly landscapes that appear both playful and expressive. By using collage, water colour and pencil as a starting point for his landscapes, surprising juxtapositions of plants, trees, animals and other structures are pieced together allowing Lucas to construct his own landscape experiences through the process of painting. Lucas also plays with ideas of seduction and paranoia within his landscapes. By using dreams and nostalgic memories, as well as inspiration taken from both traditional and contemporary landscape paintings, his paintings can appear artificial and alien in that features of the natural world are transformed and applied in strange and unfamiliar territories.

2011 - 2015

Fine Art(BA)hons
Anglia Ruskin University
Cambridge


2010 - 2011

Foundation diploma in Art & Design
North herts centre for the Arts
Hitchin

2019

Shortlisted for Visual Art Open art prize

2019

Shortlisted for Jackson's Emerging Artist prize

2017

Pop My Mind group exhibition
Ipswich town hall


2015

PAUSE
group interim exhibition
Anglia Ruskin University
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire


2015

Confined
group exhibition
Changing Spaces
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire

2014

CONTINGENCY
group exhibition
Changing Spaces
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire


2013

Rogue
group exhibition
The Victoria Pub
Hitchin
Hertfordshire


2012

Initium
group exhibition
Changing Spaces Gallery
Cambridge
Cambridgeshire


2012

My exhibition
solo exhibition
Letchworth Garden City Gallery
Letchworth
Hertfordshire