“When asked what I paint I sometimes find myself describing my paintings as emotional landscapes, which is to say that they draw on feelings and memories inspired by life as well as the natural world that I gain such inspiration from.”
- Ben Lucas

Ben Lucas is a painter of light, colour, movement and memories. He is as concerned with capturing and conveying the emotions evoked by the landscape as landscape itself.

As Ben says, “With my painting there’s always this tension or balance between portraying what is seen and what is felt” echoing the words of John Constable who said, “painting is but another word for feeling“.

Ben’s family has a strong background in the arts. He is the son of artist Caroline Lucas as well as being the brother of portrait painter Fanny Rush and the sculptor Joe Rush. He is also the Grandson of author Mary Norton best known for the children’s classics ‘The Borrowers’ and ‘Bedknobs and Broomsticks’. His Grandfather was the pioneering modernist architect and painter Colin Lucas who received an OBE for his work. Colin was a member of ‘Unit One’ the British grouping of Modernist artists founded by Paul Nash.

He has exhibited extensively in the United Kingdom, Australia and New Zealand and has been a finalist in the Caloundra Regional Art Prize and the Alan Reading Memorial Art Prize.