Traces Between Worlds 

By Lucas Console-Verma

Lucas is a painter whose work explores the relationship between past and present through the language of painting. Drawing on the complexity of Old Master compositions and his own photographic material, he constructs imagined scenes that hover between memory, emotion, and abstraction. Using digital tools to manipulate imagery as part of his process, Lucas creates layered oil paintings where the figure flickers in and out of focus, and different visual worlds converge on the canvas.

“The exhibition consisted of two large-scale oil paintings made during my time in Dubai. Both works explored the idea of painting as a living surface — where form, memory, and environment emerge through layered mark-making.

Working from personal photographs gathered during my stay, the paintings evolved through a process of building and mending: abstract gestures laid down instinctively were gradually shaped into moments of form, echoing bodies. The act of painting became a way to overlap between different realms — between Old Master visual languages and contemporary experience.”