LUCY INNES WILLIAMS
Lucy Innes Williams graduated in 2007 from Central Saint Martins College of Art with a BA (Hons) Fine Art and in 2010 received her MA Museum Studies from University College London. After over twelve year’s experience working for national art collections and picture libraries in London across a wide range of collections, curatorial and exhibition management, including at the National Portrait Gallery, Arts Council Collection and the Tate, in 2019 Lucy returned to her artistic practise full time and paints from her studio in Falmouth, Cornwall.
Lucy works from a combination of sketches from life and carefully constructed collage-like compositions of entirely unseasonal, blousy flora. Flowers are observed on walks or collated from old reference guides with the occasional bouquet from local florists. The traditional structures of an English country garden give Lucy a reference point and a tasteful choreography to break free from.
When painting onto laser-cut wood, the process is cyclical and considered and draws directly from Lucy’s previous paintings. Each wooden shape is traced from an original painting and laser-cut locally in Cornwall. There is a story behind the shape, a kind of muscle-memory and a series of choices she makes in filling and then painting back-in the details of the florals.
Choosing of a colour palette always takes place before the painting begins. Reality is not important to Lucy; imagination is so much more interesting! She asks the viewer to embrace a fictitious, dream-like world where flowers can be any colour, petals never wilt and an energy exists, bursting from each petal.
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