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AMANDA
WILLIAMS LUCAS
PROPHESY
3RD UNTIL 26TH OCTOBER
We are resolved
into the supreme air,
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart’s blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring-impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
With beat of systole and of diastole
One grand great life throbs through earth’s giant heart,
And mighty waves of single Being roll
From nerve-less germ to man, for we are part
Of every rock and bird and beast and hill,
One with the things that prey on us, and one with what we kill.
And we two lovers shall not sit afar,
Critics of nature, but the joyous sea
Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star
Shoot arrows at our pleasure! We shall be
Part of the mighty universal whole,
And through all Aeons mix and mingle with the Kosmic Soul!
We shall be notes in that great Symphony
Whose cadence circles through the rhythmic spheres,
And all the live World’s throbbing heart shall be
One with our heart, the stealthy creeping years
Have lost their terrors now, we shall not die,
The Universe itself shall be our Immortality!
Extracts from ‘Panthea’ by Oscar Wilde, 1890
Prophesy is the title of this latest exhibition by Amanda Williams Lucas.
The pieces is in this exhibition range from archive quality digital prints taken from photographic images of transient light and form to ambitious large scale sprawling paintings, which demonstrate in minute detail the ubiquitous nature of her work
Formerly Amanda Williams Lucas is an abstract artist, but it is clear when immersing yourself that despite the compositional harmony of these highly complex pieces that aesthetic formality is neither the instigator of primary objective of her pursuit.
Williams Lucas is an artist who offers little in the way of verbal statement, she states: “Making work that attempts to express something that cannot be described in words is at the heart of my practice. I try not to mentally construct the paintings. I like the idea of the freedom to paint without any intellectual dictate, but to try to allow the meaning to emerge from the work itself. The freedom of the ‘making’ is key.”
So you approach the work without precept or specific predefined concept. The experience of looking at one of her paintings is a personal revelation.
I would describe my own experience with the work as ethereal and transcendental. I am reminded of ‘Pantheism’, which promotes the idea of interconnectivity between all, where ‘God’ is better understood as an abstract principle representing natural law, existence, and the Universe - the sum total of all that was, is and shall be. There is also an inescapable suggestion of ‘Mysticism’ where spiritual truth is attained through deep-rooted intuition or instinct. For me, the profound marriage of these components create shrines for meditation and contemplation of personal and cosmic balance and interde- pendence. As such one can attempt to attain a primitive yet prophetic understanding that may help in our comprehension of our place and of our destiny.
Joseph Clarke
"Constantly think of the Universe as one living creature, embracing one being and
one soul; how all is absorbed into the one consciousness of this living creature; how it compasses all things with a single purpose, and how all things work together to cause all that comes to pass, and their wonderful web and texture."
Marcus Aurelius, 170 A.D.
We are made one with what we touch and see,
With our heart’s blood each crimson sun is fair,
With our young lives each spring-impassioned tree
Flames into green, the wildest beasts that range
The moor our kinsmen are, all life is one, and all is change.
With beat of systole and of diastole
One grand great life throbs through earth’s giant heart,
And mighty waves of single Being roll
From nerve-less germ to man, for we are part
Of every rock and bird and beast and hill,
One with the things that prey on us, and one with what we kill.
And we two lovers shall not sit afar,
Critics of nature, but the joyous sea
Shall be our raiment, and the bearded star
Shoot arrows at our pleasure! We shall be
Part of the mighty universal whole,
And through all Aeons mix and mingle with the Kosmic Soul!
We shall be notes in that great Symphony
Whose cadence circles through the rhythmic spheres,
And all the live World’s throbbing heart shall be
One with our heart, the stealthy creeping years
Have lost their terrors now, we shall not die,
The Universe itself shall be our Immortality!
Extracts from ‘Panthea’ by Oscar Wilde, 1890
Prophesy is the title of this latest exhibition by Amanda Williams Lucas.
The pieces is in this exhibition range from archive quality digital prints taken from photographic images of transient light and form to ambitious large scale sprawling paintings, which demonstrate in minute detail the ubiquitous nature of her work
Formerly Amanda Williams Lucas is an abstract artist, but it is clear when immersing yourself that despite the compositional harmony of these highly complex pieces that aesthetic formality is neither the instigator of primary objective of her pursuit.
Williams Lucas is an artist who offers little in the way of verbal statement, she states: “Making work that attempts to express something that cannot be described in words is at the heart of my practice. I try not to mentally construct the paintings. I like the idea of the freedom to paint without any intellectual dictate, but to try to allow the meaning to emerge from the work itself. The freedom of the ‘making’ is key.”
So you approach the work without precept or specific predefined concept. The experience of looking at one of her paintings is a personal revelation.
I would describe my own experience with the work as ethereal and transcendental. I am reminded of ‘Pantheism’, which promotes the idea of interconnectivity between all, where ‘God’ is better understood as an abstract principle representing natural law, existence, and the Universe - the sum total of all that was, is and shall be. There is also an inescapable suggestion of ‘Mysticism’ where spiritual truth is attained through deep-rooted intuition or instinct. For me, the profound marriage of these components create shrines for meditation and contemplation of personal and cosmic balance and interde- pendence. As such one can attempt to attain a primitive yet prophetic understanding that may help in our comprehension of our place and of our destiny.
Joseph Clarke
"Constantly think of the Universe as one living creature, embracing one being and
one soul; how all is absorbed into the one consciousness of this living creature; how it compasses all things with a single purpose, and how all things work together to cause all that comes to pass, and their wonderful web and texture."
Marcus Aurelius, 170 A.D.
