About & Contact

About Lucinda

I am an artist based out of Roanoke, VA living in a small house surrounded by catbirds, columbine, and maple trees. I specialize in delicately detailed biological illustrations with a particular fondness towards birds and insects. When I'm not busy in my studio, I am often birding up and down the Blue Ridge Mountains, transforming my yard into a wild garden, and hiking with my dog. I hope that my art will inspire others to explore the world around them and find what speaks to them, whether it's searching for birds, wandering in the mountains, or planting flowers for bugs and bees.

I grew up in Lexington, VA where I spent much of my childhood playing in creeks and cow fields, coloring in my tree house, and joining my parents on yearly Christmas Bird Counts (which I still do!). I received an MFA in Children's Book Writing & Illustrating from Hollins University and a BFA in Drawing from Guilford College. I have taught at Radford University and am a member of the Virginia Watercolor Society.

Select Solo Exhibitions

  • Seen: The Art of Lucinda Rowe, Clifton Forge School of the Arts, Clifton Forge VA, 2024

  • April Featured Artist, Earth Fire & Spirit Gallery, Lexington VA, 2024

Select Group Exhibitions

  • 46th Virginia Watercolor Society Juried Exhibition, Art Museum at the Covington Center, Radford VA, 2025

  • Cover Story: Roanokers Celebrate the Region, Noel C. Taylor Municipal Building, Roanoke VA, 2024

  • Wild Wonder; 2-person show, Crozet Artisan Depot, Crozet VA, 2024

  • ​Bower Center 11th Annual National Juried Exhibition​, Bower Center, Bedford VA, 2023

  • Restore the Wild Art Exhibition, Elisabeth Flynn-Chapman Gallery at Artspace, Richmond VA, 2023

  • 2023 Biennial Juried Exhibition, Olin Hall Galleries, Salem VA, 2023

  • WE ARE ART: The Roanoke Self Portrait Project, Noel C. Taylor Municipal Building, Roanoke VA, 2022-2023

  • small works, BIG TALENT, Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach CA, 2022

  • Bower Center 10th Annual National Juried Exhibition, Bower Center, Bedford VA, 2022

  • March Featured Artist; 2-person show, Earth, Fire, & Spirit Gallery, Lexington VA, 2020

  • Art Speaks, 7th Juried Exhibition, Bay School Community Arts Center, Mathews VA, 2019

Select Awards & Publications

  • Illustrator for The Gifts of a Garden by Christina Nifong, Edible Blue Ridge No. 60, Summer 2025

  • Best Depiction of an Outdoor Setting, Cover Story: Roanokers Celebrate the Region, Noel C. Taylor Municipal Building, Roanoke VA, 2024

  • Illustrator for Our World Is Full of Wonder by Christina Nifong, Edible Blue Ridge No. 56, Summer 2024

  • Cover Illustration, Mid-Atlantic SCBWI Highlighter, Fall 2021

  • Probable Cerulean Warbler x Northern Parula Hybrid in Rockbridge County, Virginia in April 2019 by Richard A Rowe and Lucinda M Rowe, Banisteria No. 53, 2019

  • Award of Merit, Art Speaks, 7th Juried Exhibition, Bay School Community Arts Center, 2019

Media

  • Virginia Humanities With Good Reason podcast, episode Brightness​, June 20, 2025. Listen here.

Edible Blue Ridge Magazine

Starr Hill Brewery

Clients & Collaborators

Fairy Stone State Park

Bear Creek Lake State Park

Natural Bridge State Park

Grayson Highlands State Park

Roanoke Arts Commission

Roanoke County’s Explore Park

Contact

Interested in working together? Send me a note!