At this point in his life, Tucker finds himself more and more drawn to the “effortless reality” of creating paintings, a place many artists dream of being linked with on a regular basis.“I mostly start a painting from exactly where I am. The last couple years, it generally feels like the painting is painting itself — that I’m not ‘doing’ painting. I am enchanted by the experience of it and find myself engaged in painting 24/7/365.”
“As a more mature (and childlike) artist, the difference I notice between then and now is I that have something to say about what is important to me–and that I can paint it with greater transparency and clarity. Not only has the process changed from one of being a bulldozer scraping the surfaces, but also now I could say the process is ‘streaming.’
A Walk in Other Lands is the visualizations coming from exploring the “Other” places inside me…the places not defined by any compass needle. It could just as easily be called Diving into the Hold.
