LEFT Apricot Nights,
oil on panel,
30x30cm
BELOW LEFT From
the Lane, oil on
panel, 40x40cminfluence. As a country I think landscape painting is in
our bones: Constable, Turner, they are everywhere!”
Modern and contemporary British influences include
the luscious oil paintings of Frank Auerbach and the late
Sir John ‘Kyffin’ Williams, as well as the current Royal
Academician artists Hughie O’Donoghue, Christopher
Le Brun and Frank Bowling.
Further afield she also admires the artists of the Bay
Area Figurative Movement, a group of mid-20th-century
school painters based around San Francisco. Richard
Diebenkorn was their most prominent figure, yet Lucy picks
out Paul Wonner, Joan Brown and Walter Kuhlman as
personal heroes.
Ultimately it is Lucy’s own work which is taking priority
and generating such enjoyment for her.
“Painting makes me so happy,” she says. “Even on days
when things are tough going in the studio, it’s still a time
when I fully feel myself. I love puzzles and I often look at
painting as solving constant problems so when a painting
is finished it’s a wonderful feeling. And off it goes into the
world on its own adventure.”
Lucy’s new exhibition, Big Skies, Land & Sea, runs from
4 April to 4 May at the Piers Feetham Gallery, London SW6.
http://www.lucymarks.co.uk