Taking a line for a walk — rebecca tucker paintings

It has become increasingly evident that lines are making more and more of an appearance in my work.

I’ve properly started playing with lines recently, whether it is the initial under drawing that maintains a presence in the final piece or over drawing with pen. Sketching and hatching, scratching and scribbling, different forms of line. I have used a horizontal line in my work for years. Decades. But it has always been a painterly line, a drip, or a hand painted line that has intrinsic ‘wobbliness’.

But I think my lockdown online life- and portrait-drawing sessions, undertaken in an attempt to train my eye to properly look and observe from a visual cue, has had a massive impact on what I am doing in my painting. I love that this has happened. When I started to do the drawing and life drawing classes in lock down I was struggling to see the relevance of it to my main work, so having a slightly retrospective view and seeing how it has impacted is very rewarding.