Kent Lovelace | Luminous

Nationally recognized Pacific Northwest artist Kent Lovelace (1953–2017) created masterful oil paintings, lithographs and watercolors during his life long career. From 2001 until his passing in 2017, Lovelace worked diligently in oil on copper—a centuries-old technique embraced by masters like Rembrandt and Goya. This luminous medium allowed Lovelace to craft radiant, atmospheric landscapes infused with warmth, depth, and serenity.

Based in the Puget Sound region for most of his artistic career, Lovelace found inspiration both locally and abroad. Lovelace’s work ranges from misty Pacific Northwest valleys to the cultivated countryside of Europe, capturing groves, ridges, orchards, vineyards, and cottages with a painterly sensitivity to light and tone. The reflective surface of copper becomes an integral part of each composition, lending a quiet glow to lavender-hazed dawns, golden dusks, and the gentle shimmer of early morning mist. With an eye for the subtleties of the natural world, Lovelace’s paintings invite the viewer into tranquil, timeless settings—where trees sway softly, fields stretch into the horizon, and the light of the sun, whether rising or fading, bathes the scene in an otherworldly radiance. The exhibition, Luminous, features a robust selection of Lovelace's oil on copper works as well as a few examples of his oil on canvas paintings.

Lovelace expressed, “I find myself drawn to land that has been cultivated continuously for thousands of year, where people seem to live in harmony with nature away from the intrusions of modern technologies.”

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