Lorraine Tuck

Joined Artfinder: Jan. 2016

Artworks for sale: 52

(22)

France

Updates from Lorraine Tuck's studio

  • Les bains douches - contemporary art space

    Les bains douches - contemporary art space

    I loved seeing my work hanging along side some super artists courtesy of La Galerie Melusine and the Museum service in the beautiful town of Chauvigny

    17 October 2023
    The Studio

    The Studio

    A little glimpse at my daily workplace, with plenty of light and a view across the valley it's my happy place if not my tidy place.

    30 July 2023
    Galerie 727

    Galerie 727

    Show are like buses, they come along in groups and last year saw me busy with three in a row. This one in a fab new gallery in the beautiful town of Montmorillon was so much fun and practically sold out !

    19 February 2023
    Does this count as work ?

    Does this count as work ?

    We have had the pleasure to visit Monet's famous garden at Giverny, on a quiet, soft, early summer morning. One could call it research for work, but really it was just sheer joy.

    04 June 2021
    The joy of compost

    The joy of compost

    How beautiful the kitchen scraps and the flower cuttings can be - I have taken to studying them and using them as the basis for new works. Then they can be added to the compost heap and eventually they will become the 'black gold' that feeds the flowers I can paint in the summer.

    06 March 2021
    Growing my inspiration

    Growing my inspiration

    This year, with more time at home, I have started a cutting garden to grow the flowers for my studio. It is a huge solace in these challenging times. Flowers have become important in my practice as I paint, collage and sew with the inspiration from my rambling, messy French garden perched on a village hillside over-looking the Vienne river in the depths of rural France.

    07 November 2020
    photographing Artwork

    photographing Artwork

    Big Paintings are taken out into the French village street, next to the café and photographed on a neighbour's barn door. I need to find a time when the light is clear but not too sunny

    31 July 2020
    Painting the scent of the flowers

    Painting the scent of the flowers

    These months of lockdown throughout the world have certainly been times of reflection and contemplation. What really matters ? What brings us joy? My rambling, unkempt French country garden has been a great solace and my renewed connection to it has led directly to the plants and flowers becoming the material for a new body of work in my studio. Exploring the papery petals, the fleshy stems, the way plants can display both strength and fragility, searching to embody my paintings with the heady scent & beauty of blooms.

    11 May 2020
    Inspiration from I'ile d'oleron

    Inspiration from I'ile d'oleron

    Using the experience/memory of making work on the beach on the island to feed into some new paintings. Trying to embody the spirit & fragility of the dunes & wild coast into the paintings.

    10 October 2019
    Inspiration close to home

    Inspiration close to home

    Painting in my garden in a small village in rural France

    27 February 2019
    En plein air

    En plein air

    Sometimes I need to breath the sea air and paint directly, soaking up the atmosphere, luckily the beautiful French Atlantic island of L'Ile d'Oleron is just a few hours away

    01 December 2018
    Exhibiton at La Maison du terroir

    Exhibiton at La Maison du terroir

    I have made some ephemeral works on paper scrolls using the water that flows under the village - inspired by the local landscape

    10 July 2018