Howard “Luke” Lucas paints not from photos, but from being out in the wonder of our planet. He engages in the glorious struggle of plein air painting, capturing light, form and color on paper… connecting the Akashic Record with our dynamic universe.
A founding member and past president of Artbeat Gallery, an art coop with 80 member artists. Artbeat Gallery received a prestigious award, Innovation in the Arts by the Silicon Valley Arts Council in 1993. He has served on the San Jose Art League Board of Directors, as Program Chairman for the Los Gatos Art Association and newsletter editor for the East Valley Artists. He is a past president, served on the Board of directors and Program Chair for the North Valley Art league.
He has attended numerous painting workshops at Asilomar, Ruidoso, and Mendocino and St. Mary’s Art Centers etc, as well as completing sixty semester units of community college art training.
Retiring with 32 years of service as an educator in 2000, he moved to Viola where he established the Mt. Lassen Art Center. He has five grown children and four grand children. He enjoys a warm relationship with his large 7 generation Northern California extended family from Shasta, Siskiyou and Butte Counties.
California State Teaching Credentials: Standard Elementary (Life). Designated Services (Counseling and Social Work) Life, Learning Handicapped, Resource Specialist.
Luke paints not from photos, but from being out in the wonder of it all. Connecting to the smell of the Jeffery Pine, the sound of caddis flies, the wind scudding the surface of the water, the walk to the spine of the horizon, touching the lichen on the way to find what is before and beyond. Painting is an act of touch and movement as well as an act of seeing. He seeks the feeling of moving out, into and beyond the universe of his experience. Past, present and future become a moment captured in a symbol, a painting knowing that everything is connected.
Painted after hearing of the death of my stepmother, Miriam Lucas, a weaver, educator and activist who contributed much to humanity.
Painted at the place of Buddha's enlightenment, 2006
“Mt. Shasta from Keiser Meadow ”
Great, great grand father, George Henry Sullaway and his brother William started the first stage line from Shasta to Yreka along Old Stage Rd. near were this painting was painted,
“Mt. Shasta from Keiser Meadow”
“Yosemite Falling Leaves”
“Toro Creek Rd. Ranch, Cayucos, CA”
“Mahabodi Temple Evening”
“Burney Falls, CA”
“Tunnel View Yosemite National Park”
“Glassy Manzanita Lake”
