Lucinda Bliss

About the Artist

Lucinda Bliss is an artist, teacher, and writer. Her work uses drawing, painting, collage, and installation to illuminate our understanding of place and the ways that landscape intertwines with the human narrative.

In 2013, Bliss engaged in her first project in which physical movement around a designated plot of land was a key component in her creative process. In that initial project, she navigated a series of farms, exploring their borders based on information gleaned from interviews with farmers. That experience transformed her practice, grounding it in place-based inquiry, and she subsequently completed projects exploring the Casco Bay watershed, the Maine-Canada border, the land around the Ogunquit Museum of Art, and, in Farmington, CT, an exploration of the shifting nature of the landscape during the colonial settler era. In each case, Bliss combined physical navigation with historical research, and dialogue with conversational partners, to source the work.