The images in this series are either collaged or painted. Like icons from previous centuries, they reflect faces of women living at the time the pictures were made. They call to mind the mythical stories and images of sacred motherhood or saints painted by artists throughout western history. I explore some of the many facets attributed to the Goddess, elucidating the presence of The Divine in all creation.

Layered surfaces reveal my strong interest in metaphor, archetypes, the meanings of images inside images, the relationship of composed fragments, what the history of each segment brings to the whole, and the stories each piece tells through a vocabulary of forms. Accompanying poems are my own.

These icons are contemporary references to medieval altar panels, Hispanic niche boxes, or domestic folk cabinets. They refer to ourselves as well, reminding us that we are all vessels of the Eternal Spirit of the Universe. Psychology and spirituality, and the relationship of these spheres to issues of equality and justice for women and to threatened habitats of Our Mother Earth are at the theoretical center of my most recent work. I have been working on this series off an on since 1990.

These collages consist of fragments of ink drawings, printed imagery, canceled stamps, bits and pieces of magazines and unusual papers. Some are floral and some are variations on the landscape. They show a bit of the exterior world and that of the interior as well.

Papers are adhered with Lineco or Bookbinders archival glue to cotton rag paper and sealed with UV varnish.

Overview The artwork shown here includes limited edition books that I have authored, laser prints of some collages, and greeting cards that are prints of small segments of large collages.

I am sustained by the natural world,
It inspires my work and teaches me:

that everything and everyone are connected in a wonderful web of life
that all things in the physical world originate in the spiritual world
that these two worlds are closely entwined
that the current of energy flowing out of Earth’s soil, air, and water
sustains the circular stream of life as it passes through all beings.

Most works include at least one bird.
Some images also reflect my concern about humanity’s unceasing destruction
of the river of life that supports our own.

The ink, watercolor and collage pictures reveal a reality that goes beyond the
usual world we perceive,
because of the atypical juxtapositions of elements within each composition.
Altars and animals, for instance, or a tree made from a little book.
The fun is in trying out unusual combinations of forms
and solving the mysteries of the links between them.
The sculptural birds are invented species.
They grew out of odd fragments and wood.
The tables on which they stand are puzzles that I fit together from wood scraps.

Rosemary Luckett juxtaposes sculpture and mixed media drawings in her solo show “This Land, Our Land,” a lively interplay between 2-D and 3-D expression. Continuing with themes from recent Nature House collages, she pairs the unexpected: light bulbs with bones, forks with purses, and Christmas lights with asthma inhalers. Each piece is built around a single real or symbolic object or group of items that seem unrelated to each other. The fun for her is in trying out unusual combinations of forms and solving the mysteries of the links between them. Finely honed technique and a strong concern for the environment pair up with a personality characterized by a questioning bent and a sense of humor to form these surreal landscapes; stories of the American landscape and our connections to it.