Lucine Marine
A recurring theme of my photographs, lithographs, drawings, and mixed media is water as it exists in nature: oceans, lakes, rivers, and clouds. Notice there are no horizon lines in the images—these pieces are not seascapes or nature scenes. The subject is water—the stuff of life itself. Water is constantly changing even while it appears the same. As I stand by the bank of the Allegheny River, I know that the flowing water is not the same water that flowed by this place before. Is there any separation between a wave and the ocean?
Often, I’ll draw or paint directly on the photographs of water using Sumi-e ink or digital tools. For nearly thirty years, circles or enso’s have been a common thread in my work. Practicing circles began when I learned Kanji, a type of Japanese calligraphy.
Always drawn to technical innovation, I’m recently mainly using digital tools, even to paint ensos. Video is demanding more and more attention. Long before it was practical, I wanted to draw and paint in light. Digital tools and screens now make that possible. The pristine blue of a lake can best be seen and felt when viewed on a digital screen.
What I hope you can take from my work is a profound connection between water that exists in our natural world and the circle as a metaphor for vast space, nothing lacking, yet without excess.
ART BACKGROUND (as Lucine Marine or Lucine Folgueras)
BA from Albion College with art major 1968; trained in Paris, France 1967-68 in Stanley Hayter’s multicolor intaglio techniques and Paris Museums
MA from Wayne State University in 1970; focus on intaglio, engraving, aluminum plate lithography, combining photography and drawing, Printmaking teaching Assistantship
MFA from University of Wisconsin/Madison, 1973; stone and plate lithography, full scholarship, Printmaking Teaching Assistantship
Fine Art Printer at William Weege’s Jones Road Press, Barneveld, Wisconsin, Printed for Alan Shields, Sam Gilliam and other artists 1973-74
Radiant Hall Lawrenceville Studio artist 2017 to present