Teacher Tucker exhibits work of weather and light
A Chester art teacher is preparing his artwork for inclusion in a number of high profile exhibitions across the UK. Head of Art at The Queen’s School, Alistair Tucker will first display his work during April in the Architects Gallery in London. He will also exhibit at the Wrexham International Print exhibition and the Chapel in Llangollen. In July he will be exhibiting alongside two other artists in the Lichfield Arts Festival.
Alistair not only regularly exhibits around the UK, his work is also in public collections such as the Iowa Biennial Exhibition Archive in the USA.
As Head of Art at The Queen’s School since 2006, he brings his expertise to a department that specialises in the fine art practices of painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking. Other staff working in the department are also practising artists.
Alistair’s work in the exhibitions demonstrates his expertise in etching, and he has used his skills in this area to the benefit of his department. Over the past three years he has developed the department’s printmaking facilities to a level usually only found in colleges of higher education or specialist print studios. These facilities are now also used during holidays by local artists who take part in etching workshops run by Alistair at Queen’s.
Alistair’s work is based on the shape, form and tone of the British landscape, and the effects of the changing weather and light upon it. He explains:
“When observing a landscape, it is always changing depending upon the weather or the season. Skies have always been important in my work and I often think about what John Constable said about skies… ‘It is difficult to name a class of landscape in which the sky is not the keynote, the standard of scale and the chief organ of sentiment. The sky is the source of light in nature and governs everything.’”In the past, Alistair has exhibited at The Royal Birmingham Society of Artists, The Royal Western Academy in Bristol, The Castle Gate House Gallery in Cumbria and, last year, in Liverpool at Editions Limited in a three-man show with Norman Ackroyd CBE, RA, RE and Jason Hicklin RE.
His work can also be seen online on his own website – www.alistairtucker.com, at the Axis Online Resource for Contemporary Art and an online gallery called Newblood Art.
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090427 Art students – (left to right) Jasmine Christmas, 18, Connahs Quay, Sing Yun Lee, 18, Wrexham, Alistair Tucker, Gillian Rodger, 18, Tattenhall, Bethany Picken, 18, Wrexham, Frances Simpson, 17, Chester and Stephanie Blackwell, 18, Chester.
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