Gary Tucker was drawing and painting from an early age, but not until high school did he begin to think more seriously about becoming an artist, and with the support of family and a chance meeting a life long mentor and artist, Anita Fahs, he started to make art his life path. Mrs. Fahs introduced oil painting, the impressionists, and the value of working from life.The lessons learned in her mountain studio created a foundation in Gary’s artwork and his philosophy regarding art. Upon leaving high school he studied in Santa Fe for a summer, then Colorado College for a year. Eventually Gary was drawn east to Boston where he was accepted to the School of the Museum of Fine Arts. Here Gary studied with Professor Kaji Aso, an artist from Japan, who taught watercolor and Japanese Calligraphy. The study with Professor Kaji Aso introduced Gary to eastern aesthetic s, and renewed his love of nature. Gary was also introduced to the media of watercolor and found he could achieve more subtlety and expressiveness with the medium which suited his personality. Gary along with other artists helped to create and maintain the Kaji Aso Studio, an atelier styled art school in Boston’s Back Bay area which offers classes in the arts, an active gallery, and a performance center.
Gary continues as a trustee to the Studio and also continues to teach in the Boston area and exhibits his work regularly at the Studio and other venues in New England.
“I feel commonality with the Impressionists school and the Chinese and Japanese Zen painters in that I am captivated by nature and through my artwork attempt to capture a sense of the moment in nature a
Medium: Painting - Watercolor