Seeing with the heart
Joy, Hope, and Celebration
Lucia Eames embraced the wonders of the universe and the beauty of nature in her art. She worked in many different media to create drawings, writings, photographs, and works woven with found objects.
Celebrations of Joy
Lucia Eames took every opportunity to unleash her joy of thoughtful abundance into celebrations.
The merriment in Lucia’s eye and her wide-opened smile and laughter mirrored that of visitors to her home. For all events, arrangements of beautifully crafted figurines, colors and objects were matched by tabletops heaped with delicious food beautifully presented by candlelight in a festive, colorful array.
The added festivity of sparkle and form never failed to add an exuberance of reflection, light, and finish.
When others gifter her, the splendor of Lucia’s thank-you notes bedazzled with color and personalized design and a calligraphic sentiment of thanks.
American Symbolist
Lucia Eames created art permeated with symbolic meaning. Embracing themes familiar to many, she combined and presented these symbols in different mediums—from miniature to large-scale formats, ornaments and textiles to ceramics and sculptures. The visual emblems represent the wonders of joy, hope, and happiness, reminding us of the uniting power of creation.
With its sincere tone, the vocabulary of Lucia Eames is wrapped in the magic of symbolism.
Undiscovered American Heritage
Lucia Eames highly personal work was rarely in the public eye until the later years of her life. Raised by one of America’s favorite design couples, Charles and Ray Eames, Lucia was influenced by originators, including her professor, Walter Gropius, from her early years, flourishing as a professional artist later in life.
Safely kept for decades in her California home, the exhaustive Lucia Eames archive was finally unearthed and brought to life through collections of design and exhibits of art, a testament to its timeless appeal and artistic integrity.
California Optimist
Lucia Eames found personal joy in assembling unlikely objects, reveling in an uplifting universe of color, shape, and texture. Creativity was her state of mind, and her ingenuity was rooted in imbuing positivity in the world through her craft.
Her visual vocabulary contains a wide variety of species of flora and fauna, with a particular affection for messengers of joy. The art of Lucia Eames exudes a certain sense of humor, optimism, and delight; an energetic, almost whimsical excitement is embedded in her work, and her favorite motifs—hearts, suns, and flags are all drawn with sparkle.
Visual Poet
Lucia Eames captured not only images of life, family, and friends. She often turned her camera to tiny aspects found on surfaces, discovering micro interplays of color, pattern, textures, finishes, and forms. A spider’s web of budding leaves and flowers or a swirl within ice became sceneries of exploration to delight in the details seen up close.
With the delicacies of form and pattern in nature as a favored subject, Lucia had a keen eye that allowed her to see the very essence of the world with all its joy and beauty.
Sustainable Aesthete
Lucia Eames captured not only images of life, family, and friends. She often turned her camera to tiny aspects found on surfaces, discovering micro interplays of color, pattern, textures, finishes, and forms. A spider’s web of budding leaves and flowers or a swirl within ice became sceneries of exploration to delight in the details seen up close.
With the delicacies of form and pattern in nature as a favored subject, Lucia had a keen eye that allowed her to see the very essence of the world with all its joy and beauty.
Creator by Nature
Lucia Eames delighted in combining disparate materials to create visually-rich tableaus and arrangements that incorporated plants, reflections, kite-like designs, insects, and animals, all of which helped bring the outdoors inside. Obsessed with the creative process, she reworked time and again her artistic variations, looking to exhaust all artistic possibilities.
Moving from San Francisco to a small valley surrounded by the rolling hills of Sonoma County, Lucia began filling steno pads with her writing and drawings, bringing her environment to life through fanciful motifs of stars and flowers women within animals and her eponymous butterflies.