Tracey Lane

My paintings are a celebration of the mystery of nature and the promise and complexity of life that exists in nature. All of my work is about the experience of light and shadow, color and texture, the play between the seen and the unseen, between memory and imagination. I am most inspired by the quiet drama of nature; trees bending toward the light, silent reflections, sunlight breaking through clouds. My visual language has evolved over the years but I seem to have settled on something that combines a love of abstraction with a contemporary realism.

The work reflects a personal history; childhood summers spent on Jekyll Island, GA where live oaks drip Spanish moss and marsh meets ocean; countless walks in woods among pines, birches, aspens. As with all things in nature, there is that brief moment that says everything. The bird that suddenly catches my eye through the window, pausing on a branch just long enough for me to get a photograph. The quality of light and shade in a forest, under a tree, or as reflected in water. The flower blooming today that wasn’t blooming yesterday.

I work mostly on wood panels, sometimes using brushes and other times palette knives, combining heavy, thickly applied paint with watery wa...

1997 MA, Art History, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
1986 BA, Art History, Emory University

2016 Howard Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, group show
2015 Jules Place, Boston, MA, group show
2015 Howard Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, joint show
2014 Howard Mandville Gallery, Kirkland, WA, group show
2013 Jules Place, Boston, MA, group show
2013 Pryor Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, joint show
2012 Coda Gallery, Park City, Utah, joint show
2012 Pryor Fine Art, Atlanta, GA, Flora and Fauna, group show