Luke Allsbrook is the kind of
painter who makes you realize painting is not dead, that no amount of
digitization or virtual reality can render obsolete the truly mysterious,
poetic, personal image made out of that very primitive and immediate process of
mark-making: pushing slippery, buttery, substances across canvas with intuitive
eye and hand.
Like a young Lucien Freud, Allsbrook is a painter's painter. His images are
strong and tender at the same time, the light and air swirling around the trees
and structures with a quiet hum yet stilled with a solid fix on a world keenly
witnessed by him alone, a personal, masterful voyage into a realm of his own
making, the marks loose and free, but forever.
These paintings transcend the pictorial because they suggest not only an
exterior vision, a heightened reality, but an interior soul-catching, a
spiritual journey. They are simultaneously landscape and inscape, pervasive
with the warm atmosphere of devout feeling as well as radiant phenomena, the
light behind the eye as well as in front of it.
James A. Herbert
"Edge of the Ocean"
oil on wood
42"x48"
"Memory-Georgia"
oil on wood
54"x48"
Vacation Morning in the Garden
oil on canvus
54" x 54"
Vacation Baptism
oil on canvus
91" x 36"
Magnolia
oil on wood
12" x 32"
"Still Life Orange Bucket"
oil on wood
11" x 24"
Deep Step Silver
oil on wood
18" x 19"
Georgia Land To Be Developed
oil on wood
15" x 15"
"Cortona-Belltower at Night"
oil on wood
12" x 11"
"Central Park
Sycamore in the Rain"
oil on wood
24" x 24"
"Strawberry Fields Oak"
oil on wood
9" x 18"
Topsail From PierJade
oil on wood
8" x 17"
