A CHESTER art teacher’s work will be exhibited across the UK this year.
Alistair Tucker, who is head of art at The Queen’s School, will display his work in the Architects Gallery in London, at the Wrexham International Print exhibition and at the Chapel in Llangollen.
In July he will exhibit at the Lichfield Arts Festival.
His work is also in public collections such as the Iowa Biennial Exhibition Archive in the USA.
The art department specialises in the fine art practices of painting, drawing, sculpture and printmaking and 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. Alistair joined the school in 2006 and since then 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.
His 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 says: “A landscape is always changing depending upon the weather or the season.
“Skies have always been important in my work. John Constable said: ‘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.
See Alistair’s work on www.alistairtucker.com.
