Maryann Lucas

Maryann Lucas lives and works full time as a painter in Sag Harbor, NY—a life-long dream come true. She paints exclusively in oils and directly from life, tapping into the bounty and beauty of the East End for inspiration. Her still life and landscape paintings track the seasons, with bright florals and tablescapes tumbling off her easel in spring and summertime, and more introspective interiors and contemplative landscapes when the days grow short.

Lucas describes her work as expressive realism, aimed at celebrating all that is well with the world, despite its pockets of darkness. “For me,” she says, “I know I am in the presence of something beautiful, when it steals my breath, silences my mind, and draws me in. I trust that feeling. I use it to guide my hands as I arrange a still life or scan a landscape to determine where to set down my easel.”

Lucas is primarily self-taught, but has studied with contemporary painters she admires, including Michael Klein, Denis Sarazhin, Victoria Kalaichi, Dennis Perrin, Ben Fenske and Ramiro Sanchez. She shares a studio with her daughter, Edwina Lucas, a full-time oil painter in her own right. Lucas says that working alongside her daughter has confirmed what she longed suspected, “Artists are born. They do what they do, for and from their souls.”

Before realizing that she was born to paint, Maryann Lucas worked as a television reporter for WCAX in Burlington, Vermont. Prior to that, she worked in New York City for CBS News as a producer for many shows including, Face the Nation with Leslie Stahl, Universe with Walter Cronkite and Nightwatch with Charlie Rose. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism.

Lucas was born in Flushing, NY. She met her husband, Bob Lucas, while summering in Sag Harbor back in the ‘70s. Together they have two daughters. Lucas is represented by several galleries throughout the United States and is a member of The Copley Society of Art in Boston, MA.