The imagery in Simone Lucas’ paintings is enigmatic, dreamy and pensive, but always empathetic and sensitive. The protagonists accompany us through timeless and spaceless scenes. They are part of a cosmos of their own, in which they act silently yet naturally, often fused with motifs from the animal and plant world. In all her paintings, the treatment of color and the occasional haptic application of paint is clearly visible, which makes tangible use of the structure of the paint as a material. This is also evident in her new paintings of butterflies and mushrooms, where nature develops its own color spectra, without any human intervention, and creates beauty with the help of light and matter.

Simone Lucas (b. 1973) studied from 1995 to 2002 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Prof. Dieter Krieg. Her works are represented in numerous collections in Germany and abroad. Her works have been shown at the Kunsthalle Recklinghausen (2005), the Kunstmuseum Ratingen (2007), the Museum Baden Solingen (2010) and the Kunsthalle Darmstadt (2015), among others. In addition, her paintings were exhibited at the Kunstverein Speyer (2011), the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe (2013) and in solo exhibitions at the Stadtmuseum Weilheim (2014), the Abtei Brauweiler in Pulheim (2018), and in 2021 at the Museum Bensheim, the Neue Galerie Gladbeck and the Galerie der Stadt Backnang. In 2023, Simone Luca’s works were shown at the Mannheimer Kunstverein, the Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven and the Neue Galerie im Haus Beda. In 2020, she received a working grant from the Stiftung Kunstfonds, Bonn.