Lucy was born in 1956. She studied Fine art at Canterbury College of Art, specialising in painting. As a mature student, she studied History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London.
Lucy has recently moved (2023) to Honeystreet near Pewsey, Wiltshire. She was drawn to this area for its ancient landscape with huge skies. An area full of Neolithic long barrows and megalithic sarsen stones as well as the much more recent chalk horses emblazoned across hillsides.
Before moving to Wiltshire Lucy lived first in Oxfordshire and then moved to Devon in 1997. Lucy began her career principally as a painter but once in Devon she found herself producing very different work. Having done little printmaking previously she joined the Tamar Valley Printmakers @tamarvalleyprintmakers run by Mary Gillett @gillett.mary. Lucy became captivated by the medium and in particular etching and aquatint. She exploits the darkness of the technique which perfectly suits some of her imagery. Subject matter is mostly to do with the human condition peppered with humour, relationships of people, of people and place and of people and animals. Lucy’s work is also informed by literature and myth. She sees it as a cathartic process.
She enjoys the unpredictability of printmaking and the surprises it creates. The process of etching provides her with a feeling of alchemically creating magic. It is a process requiring both creativity and a patient, often slow but considered adherence to technical considerations. Considerations which can of course, be bent and manipulated.
Lucy suggests that monotype printmaking satisfies a need for intuitive and often unlikely outcomes, this medium along with drawing and painting feeds and adds to her library of images and scenarios.
Since 2021 Lucy has been exploring and producing lithographs at the Lemonade Press in Bristol @lemonadelitho run by Catherine Ade @catherineadeartist. Lithography satisfies a need to work in a more painterly manner. Again, as in etching the alchemical process is an intricate, necessary and exciting part of employing this medium which she continues to explore and develop. Lucy is now a member of The Lemonade Press.
EXHIBITIONS:
2024 MADE gallery in Pewsey, Wiltshire
2022 Wells Art Contemporary July/August
2022 Fresh off the Press, Limekiln Gallery, Cornwall
2021 Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair November
2021 RA Summer exhibition September ‘21-January ‘22
2021 Limekiln Gallery, Cornwall Summer Exhibition
2020/21 Journey: A Mayflower 400 Project. A Transatlantic Touring Exhibition. Tamar Valley Printmakers UK and Printmakers of Cape Cod USA - Torre Abbey and Plymouth exhibitions
2020/21 RWA 168 Annual Open Exhibition
2020 Fresh off the Press, Limekiln Gallery, Calstock, Cornwall
2019 Red Dot Art Mini Print Exhibition
2019 Fresh off the Press, Limekiln Gallery, Calstock, Cornwall (group)
2019 RWA 167 Annual Open Exhibition
2018 RWA 166 Annual Open Exhibition
2018 Red Dot Art Mini Print Exhibition
2018: RBSA Print Prize Open exhibition (third prize winner)
2018: International Mini Print - Seacourt (group)
2018: Fresh off the Press, Limekiln Gallery, Calstock, Cornwall (group)
2017: Endelienta, open exhibition, Cornwall (group)
1991: HallRichards Gallery, London (solo)
1990: Cole and Cole Solicitors, Oxford (group)
1988: RWA, Bristol (136th annual open)
1988: Oxford Billboard project
1988: Red in Tooth and Claw, Westgate Exhibition Room, Oxford (group)
1987/8: Cahill and Grebler Gallery, London. Christmas show (group)
1986: Women on Men, Cahill and Grebler Gallery, London (group)
1980's: Open studio shows during the decade.