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Luke’s Strokes of Nature series displays the artist’s early explorations into using natural material, including leaves, flowers, sticks, etc. as paint application tools. Adding to the artist’s incorporation of multi-sensory aspects to his art making, both in production and exhibition, Luke collected a selection of natural detritus to fashion into paint tools, layering this application over large and medium brushstrokes.
The first of it’s series, Strokes of Nature #1 displays a dry brushing of black, applied with a large brush in the background, allowing some of the paper’s bright white to show through. A medium brush has then been used to apply gold and turquoise paint, with a final layer of white acrylic applied using natural materials.
(This work has previously exhibited through exhibition ‘A Guide Through Abstraction’).