About The Paintings ~ and The Artist
A bit of history ~ and explanation
A bit of history ~ and explanation
A bit of history ~ and explanation
Kevin Ducoing lives in West Seattle. He has lived in Washington since 1982 when his family left California and put down roots in the Pacific Northwest. Kevin immediately felt the draw of PNW aesthetic; damp, but clean and crisp...and most times, monochromatic. Growing up here influenced Kevin’s work deeply. He attended The Art Institute of Seattle and was further influenced there by one of his teachers, Bill Cumming.
Currently Kevin can be found painting in West Seattle, and working as a fine art photographer and reproduction specialist in the SODO neighborhood of Seattle.
The Houses
A bit of history ~ and explanation
A bit of history ~ and explanation
The 'flying house' paintings reflect a distinct Pacific Northwest tone: infusion of gray skies, dark forests, sounds muted by ancient beds of pine needles, and local lore brimming with ghost stories. Kevin feels acutely the interaction of this aesthetic in the small towns that dot the landscape and push up against or raze ancient forest.
Our interaction with trees and forests runs deep in our existence. Where we are pleased to experience two or three generations of people, a tree easily experiences five, ten or more generations of people. His desire is to express this duality of modern living next to wilderness - with the feeling that it is actually we who are the characters in a told story. We are the ghost stories; the local lore…and the landscape tells its own stories about us.
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Currently there are two series featuring houses. ‘They Came in Peace’ and ‘The Blue House’
'They Came in Peace' can be spoken as plain fact, a question, or as a wry commentary of our interaction with the land on which we live. Imagining our most obvious legacy -our homes, our neighborhoods, our towns- as experienced from the landscape's point of view, what if the land itself could tell the tale of us, the people. Are we just part of the overall surrounding landscape? Are we an invasion, or threat? In this collection, our presence in the world can be imagined as a flying house moving through the landscape, as from a ghost story, or a science fiction movie.
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Another series with houses untethered from the ground and drifting through landscapes is titled 'The Blue House.' The pieces attempt to personalize the many feelings we experience around the subject of transitioning, or pulling up roots and moving into unfamiliar places.