Lucan Charchuk
April 16, 2005
Lucan was born in Lamont, AB
of first generation Canadian parents, which gave him his Ukrainian Heritage. His first artistic aspirations
were drawing figurines to please his Baba (grandmother) and helping his
Aunt Sophia to decorate Ukrainian Easter Eggs. In his youth, Lucan remembers worshipping before Gothic icons of his Greek Catholic faith as he teetered in trancelike suspension of disbelief. He spent his youth in Vegreville, AB as a prairie
boy saddled with the contradictions of modernity against the burdens of Orthodoxy, where his art teacher was Marilyn Wheately Wells. Upon graduation he was involved with a manuscript, "Ten Story Church", which was donated to the Alberta Archives to draw and record history of old ethnic churches in northern Alberta.
Lucan later attended Art School in Calgary to find that he was just a "Crazy
European" looking for his roots. Under the guidance of artists Jean Detheux
and John Coleman, Lucan graduated with a Fine Arts Painting and Drawing Diploma granting him artistic license to create.
Lucan also has spent 15 years selling art supplies
to industry as well as helping to develop the archival storage mobile system
for northern collections at the Prince of Wales Museum in Yellowknife. During
this time he also completed numerous paintings as private commissions. Lucan
has acheived a Bachelor of Fine Arts through A.C.A.D., Calgary, at Langara College in Vancouver.
He has developed a passion for French, English, Ukrainian and Italian culture
and has toured on site in Art History and English Literature Classics survey
in Europe. At the end of this study Lucan returned to join the ranks of
La Fête colombienne for 5 years to learn computer graphics and help develop
animation for bilingual language lessons for children at the www.L2ed.com web site.
Lucan likes to write and recite poetry, attend
Life Drawing and enjoys people, nature, music and art.