Strokes of Nature #5, 2018

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.

Strokes of Nature #5 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. This has been overlayed with minimal but equally large brushstrokes in white. Natural materials have been used to apply white, as well as a thin layer of translucent turquoise over top.

(This work has previously exhibited through exhibition ‘A Guide Through Abstraction’).