ABOUT THE ARTIST

Lacey Stinson is a Louisiana native.  Born in Ruston, his family moved to the mossy wooded outskirts of Baton Rouge. He began painting with oils on canvas in high school during a six year stay in Atlanta, Georgia but returned to Louisiana for formal studies and a 1997 Master of Fine Art degree from Louisiana Tech University. 

Lacey was married for seven years and domestic partner for seventeen to the murder mystery writer/domestic abuse advocate, Debra Faircloth. Today, Lacey paints full time from his home studio north of Ruston in the hilly pine wooded outskirts of the town of Dubach.

IN HIS OWN WORDS

I avoid decoration. Rather, my life is in the paintings where my need is for space and atmosphere. Discard the unnecessary; keep what is good, virile and true.

The peach orchard near my home in north Louisiana symbolizes humanity's adaptation of nature to our needs and wishes...to feed us; to sustain us; to comfort us. As food, the fruit is a necessity; as gifts, a delicacy. But the orchard is dying from a common disease now untreatable due to new government regulation, due to new wisdom.

If not an orchard, the land would surely sprout a subdivision in orderly rows of gabled mounds of glass, wood and brick. What other dreams can, or should shape the world, our world, this world? Can nature thrive anymore without our considered wisdom?

We can do little and live, but do we live well? There is something each of us does well. What I do is paint. It is a choice and a need. Is this significant? A saint and a sinner, in a mirror, look just the same.