Biography

Lucy’s Biography
Studied at

1978 – 80 St. Cyprians School

1981 – 82 Two Years at Simi’s studio, Florence

1984 One year Foundation Course, Chelsea School of Fine Arts

1986 – 88 Three Years Diploma Course, Byam Shaw school of Art

Short Courses

1984 Six Weeks at Inchibald School of Interior Design

1990 Four Weeks Summer School, The Slade

1989 – 92 Three Short Courses at West Dean; Marbling and Glazing Guilding and Portraiture

2008 – 10 Stained Glass. Art’s Link at Sherborne House

Glass applique at Sherborne House

One day fused glass with Nina Gronw – Lewis

Screen printing on glass with Heather Power

Glass casting at Warm Glass

Photo etching with Jenny Graham

Printmaking with Barbara Wagner at the Guggleton Farm Art in Stalbridge. Zoom Mokuhanga printmaking course with Robin.

Exhibitions

1987 Young Masters 1984, at the Solomon Gallery, one of ten exhibitors selected by Brian Sewel
1988 One man show, Tupence Coloured Gallery, Whitney, Oxfordshire
1989 – 92 Group show at the Mistral Gallery, Dover
1990 – 92 Young Artists Exhibition in aid of the Cystic Fibrosis Research trust Fund at Bonhams.
1990 Participated at Group Show at Bonhams
1990 Contemporary Portrait Society
1991 “Young Collectors Exhibition”, Beaton-Brown, 20 Motcomb Street, London
1992 One of five exhibitors of The Young Collectors, At the Beaton Brown Gallery, London
1992 Group Show, Mistral Gallery, London
1992 Royal Academy, London
1993 Father Daughter show, Nico Malan, Cape Town
One of three exhibitors at the Hyde Park Gallery, London
1993 Royal Academy, London
1993 – 94 St John’s Wood Charity Show, London
1994 British Red Cross – Berhshire Branch
1995 One- woman- show at the Universary of Stellenbosch, South Africa
1995 Royal Academy, London
1996 – 98 Society of Women Artists
2000 Leweston Golden Jubilee Art Exhibition
2003 Silent auction for Dorst Opera
2005 One-man-show, Guggleton Farm Arts Project, Somerset
2007 African Show, Shepherd Market, London
2007 – 08 Society of Women Artist at the Mall Galleries, London
2008 Silent Auction, Millfield School. Commissioned to paint Farleigh House, Nr Bath, money raised for Children’s Hospice.
2008 Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, Waterloo, London
2008 The Dove Studios, Butleigh, Somerset
2008 Art’s link, Christmas Show, Sherborne
2008 The Gerram Gallery , Sherborne
2008 – 10 Bath & West Show
2008 – 10 Dove Studios
2009 Art-for-Life, Musgrove Park, Taunton
2010 SAW – Somerset Art Week, open studio
2010 Leweston Living and Christmas Fair
2010 Pylle Emporium and Gallery, November and December
2011 & 2012 Bath and West
2011 & 2012 Dove Studio, summer show
2011 SOMERSET ART’S WEEK, group show
2012 54 The gallery, Sheperhs Market London
2011 – 2015 Bath and West
2011 – 2015 Dove Studio, Butleigh, Somerset. Summer and Christmas shows
2012 and 2013 “Leweston living and Christmas Fair”
2012 54 Shephers Market, London with M.Lavittoux and Emma Fyfe Jamieson
2014 “Comune di Stazzema”,Italy, with some of Nerina Simi’s students
2014 “National Brain Appeal”
2015 Wales Barn Group, Somerset
2015 Guggleton Gallery with Elizabeth Parsons
2018 “Complimentary Cousins” with Sophy Bristol, D Contemporary Gallery, Grafton St., London
2018 “Art 4 Army” Dukes, Dorchester, Dorset
2018 The Jerram Gallery, Sherborne, Christmas Exhibition
2019 Parallax Art Fair , Kensington , London
2022 Solo exhibition: Shaftesbury Arts Centre, Shaftesbury in March 2022
2022 54 The Gallery, Sheperd Market, W1J 7QX with Jeremy Hammick and Liz Parsons in June.

Commissions

Landscapes
2002 – 06 Wilsons, Ian Makay, Suters, Mrs C. Barlow, Mrs T. Barlow, Scotts, Nowel Shuttleworth and Lady Graaff.
Portraits
2005 – 06 Robins family, the Briggs girls, the Hamilton children and the Shouldon children.
Landscapes
2008 Modleys, Copelands and Edmunds.
Landscapes
2008 Sarah Whittick, Christopher Suter and Ilsa Barlow.
2012 Rimpton Church, commissioned by John Tricker
2013 – 2015 A commission for John and Brenda Spencer for all their work with our church over many, many years. Mrs Paul Bristol, Jilly Scott, William Francklin
2015 A stained glass window for Sarah and David Eastwood, Cambridge
2017 Portrait of Isla, Commissioned by Mrs Buchanan

2020 Spring Garden commissioned by John Tricker

2020 House and Garden commissioned by Yvers Lancaster

Reviews

1987 Mail on Sunday, Brian Sewell
1988 Arts Review, article shown at Tupence Coloured Gallery
1992 Cape Times, review of Father and Daughter show, South Africa
2004 Blackmore Vale
2006 Courtyard View
2006 Talk on South Africa for “Women’s World Day of Prayer”
Mentioned in “A Life with Food” Peter Langan by Brain Sewell
2018 ” Made in Dorset” Magazine

2020  Print donation to National Brain Appeal