Presenting Gary Tucker

Watercolours

Gary Tucker, from Boston, Massachusetts, USA, chose watercolours because he could achieve more subtlety, power, and expressiveness in his painting. He says: “Through the medium of watercolor and my process of painting, I find power through brushwork and subtlety through transparency, Watercolor differs from other media in that there is a performance aspect to it. The fine pieces come out in one sitting and very often, like a classical performance, something happens, a fusion of mind and subject, an improvisation that cannot be duplicated.”

Gary started to make art his life-path while still in high school under lifelong mentor Anita Fahs. Eventually he was drawn to Boston where he met Prof Kaji Aso at the School of the Museum of Fine Art.

If you want to see Gary in action you can find around 200 videos on his YouTube channel.

Gary’s teaching Philosophy:

“To communicate through any medium, we need to understand how employ our craft. We learn this through immersion. We study nature, we look to the great art of our predecessors, we train our eyes, our ears, our mind, and our heart, to become more perceptive more sensitive so that we may say something more. A good teacher will emphasize the fundamentals until the student becomes the artist. The fundamentals are constant through every culture every medium and every masterpiece.”