Using pastel on paper, award-winning artist Lane M. Duncan crafts inspiring landscapes and portraiture in the Impressionist tradition. Deeply interested in French urbanity and culture, he forms moody European skies lingering over bridges, skylines, and rolling hills. His painterly strokes evoke an assortment of textures and atmospheric effects without seeming wispy or translucent; even the sky takes on a robust physicality in Duncan’s work. The figures exude a particularly quiet, world-weary emotion. Simple daily acts take on an almost spiritual significance. To understand the tradition of his chosen art form the artist has traveled extensively, making pilgrimages to sites that inspired previous Impressionist painters. The unique aspect of his work in the world of art is “resonance,” explains Duncan, “like the analogy in music, the subtle dissolution of an intense moment in time.”
Lane M. Duncan’s paintings have been collected by a number of private and corporate collectors and have been exhibited in group and solo shows in Paris, Atlanta, New York and New Orleans. He lives in Atlanta.