Originally from the UK – Luke has lived in Australia since 2002. He’s a self-taught painter who’s inspired by Australia’s natural beauty and boisterous wildlife. He has an ongoing obsession with painting Australian parrots.
Luke is the owner any primary artist at the Art Room gallery and workshop in Narooma. He’s exhibited in galleries across NSW, was awarded first place in the global online competition “Art Wars” in 2017, has been published in the book by Outback Creative in 2018 and for many years was involved in running the Ferry Artists Gallery in Wisemans Ferry. He has a passion for painting, teaching and creating public art in his community.
Luke’s evolving painting style has been in response to his appreciation for the photography technique of Bokeh – which creates the effect of soft out-of-focus backgrounds, achieved when shooting a subject, using a fast lens, at the widest aperture.
His landscape painting style is inspired by the colour and designs in vintage travel posters and the clean lines created by screen printing.
He likes to create this contrasting effect in his painted work – combining specific in focus details and contrasting softness. This has the effect of bringing attention to the subject. Luke finds that acrylic paints achieve the intensity of colour, sharp lines and soft layering he desires in his pieces.
