Tracy Croucher
Artist’s Statement
The Garden Suites
Tim and Tracy have taken varied approaches to the subject of the garden.
Tracy searches the unassuming environment around her home and selects and crops from it, painting intuitively to invent lyrically hued scenes that become serene, and arcadian.
Tim draws from a tropical estate and its unnatural and abandoned architecture. His paintings form a traverse through this defunct fantasy where the lush vegetation and sultry sweltering atmosphere re-possess the land.
Biography
Tracy Croucher was born in Nelson in 1962. She graduated from University of Canterbury with a Bachelor of Fine Arts in 1985. She painted under the name Tracy Wilson into the 1990s.
She has a studio at her home in Hamilton. Tracy makes large oil paintings and works on paper working predominantly with themes of playful bathing and also domestic interiors and still life. Her work is lyrical, elegant, understated and is noted for its vibrant and sophisticated colour palette.
Tracy has exhibited her work consistently over the last 30 years with series of work such as, Chiming Room, Things as You Find Them, Deep Enough to Swim In and There is a River.
Tracy’s work is held in public and private collections such as, Waikato Art Museum, Manawatu Art Gallery, and Christchurch Art Gallery Te Puna o Waiwhetu, and Foresight Collection.
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