Tropical and Palm Watercolors by Lester Pancoast
Lester Pancoast (1931-2003) exhibited his works in numerous juried exhibitions and eleven one-man shows. His award winning work has the attention of over 60 active patrons and is featured in a variety of publications, both botanical and art-related. One of his paintings is included in the permanent collection at the Smithsonian Natural History Museum and on the covers of highly acclaimed international magazines.
Lester was also an architect, and landscape architect. He lived surrounded by lush palms, heliconias, and other tropical flora. He traveled to other countries where these plants grow wild to study and photograph the grace and complex growing habits which made them a pleasure to paint and to display.
"My work is the result of my good fortune: to have been a child of creative parents, to have retained the disciplines of two demanding professions, architecture and landscape architecture, to have been exposed to extraordinary art through a solid education and extensive travel, and to have lived in a place of spectacular light and splendid tropical growth. My work is also the result of finding joy in composing elements which make vision so rich: light, color, pattern, rhythm, contrast, complexity, and simplicity."
| Transparent and permanent watercolor is the perfect medium with which to approach palms, which were his favorite subjects. He reached for the enormous variety of their personalities, their structure, and especially their love affairs with light. He did not want to show them at a distance in the way they are usually seen, but to enter into the confines of their own, private space. |
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