With a unique eye and a playful, evocative exploration of the natural Earth’s color palette, Lucy's work predominantly features land and waterscapes, incorporating unique elements like gold leaf and etched plexiglass. "Each blank canvas is an opportunity, a precipice I must hurl myself off. Step one is to create my harness by taking a thick piece of charcoal and writing a message to myself about what I want this piece to evoke. Sometimes, it is a sentence or two from a poem or book, such as, “A woman stands alone” or “A drop fell on the apple tree, another on the roof” Emily Dickinson. This is useful in two ways: it gives me structure and shines a light through the snow blindness of the empty white panel. In the process of correlating the colors, values, and marking with paint, charcoal, pencil, and even sanding, I conceal the words, and a visual conversation begins between the painting and myself. Thus, by adjusting over and again from hints given by previously applied paint, a landscape is revealed."
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