Artist, Illustrator, Barclay Tucker unveiled his latest work
earlier today to applause and wonder. The boldness and reaction to his latest
body of art literally broke the Internet. Mike Dente head IT guy at Lyndon
State College was alarmed. “All of the servers in a small region of the North
East Kingdom were overloaded by the demand to see this new work. It shut the
system down.”
Tucker said of this new work, “I had been doing the bow tie
thing for a long time. It was getting trite. I needed to find something artistically
challenging.” He mentions that in creating this new look he went back to the
art he was creating in the early seventies. “I realized that was who I really
was as an artist. There was a rawness and an innocence that I had lost.” Even with
the rejuvenating work Tucker says “process of making these illustrations is
exhausting. I spend days agonizing over each stroke, every color, but it is
worth it.”
The Editor of the papers said that they could use these for
such topical issues as getting a new traffic light in town to articles about
global warming. “Their versatility is amazing.”
Tucker’s reaction to the popularity of this new work was
humble and appreciative, “I am excited about the response, I had considered
moving on to neck ties, but I felt there wasn’t a market for it. This type of
illustration is universal. It speaks to the issues of today. I have The
Caledonia Record and LSC’s Critic beating on my door to use these illustrations
in their editorials.“
If you have any questions or want to purchase prints of his
work please contact the artist via e-mail.
