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My Work at the 2025 Seattle Art Fair

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I’m honored to be showing several of my still life paintings this weekend with Harris Harvey Gallery at the 2025 Seattle Art Fair. This Seattle gallery is known for championing contemporary work by West Coast artists, and I’m happy to be exhibiting alongside a group of remarkable painters from their roster.

The fair takes place at the Lumen Field Event Center, where over 80 galleries will be featured, including programming from SAM, public talks, installations, and more. Harris Harvey Gallery will be at Booth B11, and their space includes artwork by Fred Holcomb, Terry Furchgott, Gary Faigin, Eduardo Fausti, Linda Jo Nazarenus, Hiroshi Sato, Thomas Wood, John Lysak—and myself.

If you’re planning a visit, I’ll be there Saturday morning (July 19) and would love to say hello.

Event Details

Seattle Art Fair 2025
Lumen Field Event Center
800 Occidental Ave S, Seattle, WA 98134
Booth B11 – Harris Harvey Gallery

Public Hours:
Friday, July 18: 11am–7pm
Saturday, July 19: 11am–7pm
Sunday, July 20: 11am–6pm

Fair programming includes artist talks, curated installations, and gallery booths from around the world. It’s a great opportunity to experience a broad range of contemporary artwork—whether you’re an artist, avid collector or simply curious about art. For more information about the fair, go to the Seattle Art Fair website.

I hope to see you there!

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Recent Still Life: Exhibition in Seattle

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I’m thrilled to share that I will have paintings on view at Harris Harvey Gallery from September 5 – 28, 2024. I’ve been working on getting ready for the show for a while and it’s wonderful to finally see it come together. Please go the gallery website to see what is still available.

Artist Statement about the Paintings on View

I paint objects of intimate familiarity—fruits and florals from my garden, objects handled in my time as a mount maker for Seattle Art Museum—in compositions inspired by the Dutch Golden Age. Much as the Dutch masters would compose seasonal impossibilities, I bring together inspirations separated by time, space and tradition. My work is a reach for a childhood of birds’ nests and frogs, a longing to grasp that wonderment yet reconcile with isolation and loss. It is a meditation on the comings and goings of life, the closeness and distance to kin of all kinds.

Western Tiger Swallowtail and Parrot Tulip botanical still life painting by Rebecca Luncan
Western Tiger Swallowtail and Parrot Tulip, oil on copper, 5.5 x 4.5″
Broken Tulip and Bee, oil on copper, 6.5 x 5.5 in
Asian Pears and Peaches on Lacquer Tray, oil on copper, 20 x 24 in
fruit still life oil painting on copper by Rebecca Luncan
Plums and Swallowtails, oil on copper, 16 x 20 in
still life oil painting on aluminum of Figs and Cheese, Robin, flower and celadon dragon vase by Rebecca Luncan
Figs and Cheese with Celadon Dragon Vase, oil on aluminum, 10 x 8 in
Four Tulips and a Yellow Rose, oil on aluminum, 14 x 11 in
Mum, Butterfly and the Spider, oil on aluminum, 17 x 12 in
Spider mum oil painting with snail and bee by Rebecca Luncan
Spider Mum, Bee and Snail, oil on aluminum, 17 x 12 in
Blackberries and the Indigo Bunting, oil on copper, 12 x 12 in
Yellow Tulip and Monarch Butterfly, oil painting on aluminum, by Rebecca Luncan
Yellow Tulip and Monarch Butterfly, oil on aluminum, 7 x 6 in
Fiji Papilio swallowtail butterfly oil painting
Fiji Papilio Swallowtail, oil on copper, 4.5 x 5.5 in
Rebecca Luncan with family in painting studio
The artist in the studio with her two sons
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New paintings in Three Person Show

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I was invited to participate in a three person show at Antler Gallery alongside Thomas Jackson of Australia and Vasilisa Romanenko who is based in New England. It’s pretty incredible that three artists that come from all over the world have so much in common! It was great to see my work alongside such creative and beautiful pieces. The show is up from October 29th -November 22nd.

  • Thomas Jackson
  • Vasilisa Romanenko

I think it’s important to see your work outside the bubble of your studio. It helps me understand my perspective better, when seen alongside other contemporary artists, especially when those artists are investigating similar topics (in this case, looking at the natural world). It’s particularly exciting to see the dazzling technical care put into the artwork. Some people may see the word “technical” and think it’s cold and uncaring, but when in context of painting, I find it to be intimate and incredibly tender.

Three New Paitnings

I’ve been working on miniature still life paitnings for almost two years now with my Monthly Miniature project. For this show, I have made three new larger pieces within the still life genre. I love making miniatures, but it’s great to be able to expand on my ideas. Both literally and figuratively! I’ve added some in-progress images at the bottom of this post so that you can get a sense of scale. Even though two of the paitnings are still quite small at 10″ x 9″, they’re just about twice the size of my miniatures! So you see how much more detail I can get into my insects and furit.

I hope you enjoy the new paitnings! Please take a look at Antler Gallery’s website. They have a great variety of beautiful and interesting work.

  • photo realistic still life paitning with fruit and insects by Rebecca Luncan
    Wood Nmyphs and Green Apples, oil on copper, 10″ x 9″
  • Checkerspot butterfly over asian pears (nashi) still life oil painting by Rebecca Luncan
    Checkerspot butterfly over Nashi, oil on copper, 10″ x 9″
  • Polyphemus moth over nashi fruit still life oil painting by Rebecca Luncan
    Polyphemus Over Nashi
    oil on aluminum, 12″ x 16″
  • contemporary still life oil painting in progress by Rebecca Luncan
  • still life painting in progress asian pear (nashi) by Rebecca Luncan
  • polyphemus moth in progress oil painitng by Rebecca Luncan
  • wood nymph in progress painting by Rebecca Luncan
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Oil Painting of a Unicorn for Group Exhibition

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Antler Gallery in Portland is hosting their ninth annual group exhibition, Unnatural Histories. Artists are asked to depict mythical creatures from existing lore, or their own imagination, with reference to traditional natural history paintings, drawings and sculpture. When invited to make a piece for the exhibit, I had no choice but to make an oil painting of a unicorn. 

I have a four year old son who is obsessed with these horned beasts. Unicorn drawings and parts of unicorn costumes have found their way all over my house and my painting studio. 

I wanted ground my fantastic creature in traditional equine painting. I love the full body paintings of horses that were popular in early Georgian England. The masters George Stubbs and Jacques-Laurent Agasse are particular favorites of mine with their mix of landscape and formality.

The model for my unicorn was my sister in law’s Polish Arabian horse Vibey. Molly used to spend one day a week with Isaac until he was two years old and I wonder if she my have influenced his love of unicorns? When she saw the painting, she said, “you’ve painted the unicorn horn that I could always see”. Vibey was a rescue horse and she and Molly were very close. When asked to write a story about the painting, I imagined a fantastic setting with a little Molly saving Vibey, mirroring the true story between these two.  Go to the galleries website to read my story.

Vibey was born on Whidby Island here in the Pacific Northwest. Placing her in a setting where she could see and hear the water felt like I was paitning her at her home.

in progress oil painting of Polish Arabian horse as unicorn by Rebecca Luncan
oil painting of Polish Arabian horse as unicorn by Rebecca Luncan

Summer’s End
oil on aluminum, 11″ x 14″

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Poison Garden, forest floor still life paitning for group exhibit

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Poison Garden, Antler Gallery, July 30th – August 23rd

Forgotten Garden, oil on aluminum, 9″ x 16″

In my “In Season” Monthly Miniature still life series, I studied and paid tribute to different artists of the Dutch golden age of still life paitning throught the year in which I completed that project. One of the artists I stumbled upon was Otto Mardeus van Schrieck. He created these incredibly detailed paintings that so perfectly contrasted the dark and light of the natural world. For that series I made a painting titled, “Forest Floor with Rabbits“. This painting was quite different than the others in the series that were more tradidional table top still life paintings. I think it was an important one to make for me to understand more fully the genere of still life in the 1600’s though.

I’d been toying with the idea of dedicating my next series of miniatures to “forest floor” paintings and decided on something different. When I got the invitation from Antler Gallery to participate in their Poison Garden exhibit I immediately knew exactly what I wanted to paint.

Years ago, I invited my neighbors foxglove flowers into my own garden when she was digging them up in fear that her dogs would eat them. The poisonous but beautiful flowers quickly bagan popping up in new places throught my garden and I encouraged them. When I had my son, however, I began to question that decision. Especilly since he loved foraging for different edible berries on his own. I began pulling them up, but there was no way I could get them all. The model for his painting is one of my survivors. My son still forages, but he’s a quick leaner and is very careful around the flowers. He actually held up a huge sheet of black paper behind the plant for me while I photographed it for reference for this paitning so that I could make the shadows and highlights more accuratly.

I included insects that are also poisonous, some with stings, others bites and I didn’t know this, but most butterflies are also toxic. Not that I’ve ever tried to eat one.

I hope you enjoy the painting and I hope you’ll go to the Antler Gallery website to see some of the other artists beautiful pieces for the exhibition.

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New Work in Small Works Exhibit at Harris/Harvey Gallery

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Come wish me happy birthday at the opening of “Small Works Show”, Thursday, December 5th! The exhibition includes a wide array of subjects, styles and mediums including: painting, photography, printmaking, and mixed media works. I’ll have four painting in the show.

Harris/Harvey Gallery
1915 First Ave, Seattle, WA 98101
Tues – Sat 11:00 am – 6:00 pm; Mon by appointment
206.443.3315
December 5, 2019 – January 4, 2020
Opening Reception: Thursday, December 5, 6 – 8 p.m. 

New Still Life Paintings

I’ll have two still life paintings in the show that have never been exhibited before. One is a painting of raspberries and insects that is part of my Monthly Miniature series form 2019, In Season. You can learn more about this painting on my blog. The other is from an ongoing larger still life series.

  • Anita's Insects, miniature oil painting of dragonfly, bee and grasshopper by Rebecca Luncan
    Anita’s Insects oil on copper, 5″ x 5″ 5″ x 5″
  • "Pears and Japanese Porcelain", contempacorary realism still life oil painting on aluminum by Rebecca Luncan
    “Pears and Japanese Porcelain”, oil on aluminum, 8″ x 10″

I picked dozens of bartlett pears from the garden this year and we hatched painted lady butterflies from a kit my friend gave to my son for his birthday. I choose the a bowl from the Seattle Art Museum collection that I used in a still life earlier this year Brussels Sprouts and Porcelain Bowl . I spent a year making mounts for the porcelain room at the Seattle Art Museum and fell in love with porcelains. This bowl features “three goats (yang) and the Three Friends of the Cold Season (pine, blossoming plum, and bamboo) all carrying a message of renewal appropriate to the beginning of the new year. Winter ends and spring arrives; yin is on the wane and yang is on the rise, heralding the rebirth of nature.” I chose a different goat for this painting.

Rabbits in the Forest

I have two rabbits and have done more than a dozen painting of them. They were the focus for my first Monthly Miniature series and, years after finishing that series, they still find their way into my work. My indoor rabbits moved to an outdoor run last year and my rabbit paintings have likewise gone from interior settings to the wild outdoors.

  • Miniature forest floor still life painting with butterflies and rabbits by Rebecca Luncan
    Forest Floor with Rabbits, oil on aluminum, 5″ x 5″
  • White Rabbit contemporary realism oil painting on aluminum by Rebecca Luncan
    A Silent Gathering (Aspen and Hare), oil on aluminum, 6″ x 4″
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Childhood’s End Gallery Small Works Show

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Nine artists from the Pacific Northwest created artwork for this small works show and I made the trip down to Olympia to join some of them for the opening. Though the mediums varied wildly with ceramics, oils, watercolors, acrylics, drawing, etc., all of the pieces were created by women. I got to see some familiar and dear faces while meeting some new lovely people at the opening.

Go to my last post to see all of the pieces I have in the show and go to the gallery website to purchase a piece.

Artist Rebecca Luncan at the Small Works Exhibition Art Opening
Artist Rebecca Luncan at the Small Works Opening, photo by Darcy Goedecke

About Childhood’s End Gallery

“Since 1971 Childhood’s End Gallery has been a leading source for fine art and American craft. Located along the waterfront in historic downtown Olympia, we feature the work of hundreds of artists and craftspeople. Our selection of items includes functional and decorative work in a variety of media including art glass, ceramics, woodwork, metalwork, jewelry and a wide range of fine art and reproductions.”

The gallery is divided to showcase fine art on one side and hand made American crafts on the other. Both the space and the gallerists are gems and definitely worth a visit.

Visit the gallery:

Childhood’s End Gallery is located at the corner of 4th Avenue and Water Street in downtown Olympia, Washington. Olympia is located 1 hour south of Seattle, Washington and 2 hours north of Portland, Oregon along the Interstate 5 corridor.

Hours: Mon. – Sat. 10am-6pm
Sunday 11am-5pm

222 4th Ave W, Olympia, WA 98501

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Calf paintings and chicken drawings in Small Works Exhibit

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Bovine beauties and classic chickens have posed for two new paintings and three new drawings. On view July 12 – August 25th at Childhood’s End Gallery as part of a group exhibit featuring small artwork from nine northwest female artists.

Childhood’s End Gallery has been around since 1971 and they’re a leading source for fine art and American craft.  Located along the waterfront in historic downtown Olympia, step inside and you’ll find something for everyone.

I’ll have two calf paintings of Zebu cows from Holly Freeman’s herd about an hour outside Nashville, TN. She helps run the Columbia Art’s Building and raises all sorts of creatures. See these two painting and more from the Into the Country (larger works) series.

Calf oil painting in the realist tradition by Rebecca Luncan
Cheryl oil on aluminum 8″ x 8″

Though my primary medium is oils, keeping up a steady drawing practice informs and strengthens my technical skills. I’ve also always been fond of the medium. I have three affordable portraits of hens and roosters in the exhibition and plan to continue to make more throughout the year. My husband and I have been traveling around the Seattle area this summer taking photos of our friends chickens (one day we’ll have our own!). I’m making four painting for another exhibition opening up next month in LA, but there were so many incredible faces in the mix that I was eager to capture in a portrait. See them all in my gallery of drawings.

  • Graphite portrait drawing of a Plymouth rock rooster with a rose comb by Rebecca Luncan
    Clifford, graphite on paper, 4″ x 4″
  • realistic Graphite portrait drawing of a white chicken by Rebecca Luncan
    Sally, graphite on paper, 4″ x 4″
  • Graphite portrait drawing of a white chicken by Rebecca Luncan
    Martha, graphite on paper, 4″ x 4″