Lucy Innes Williams

The presence of the hand is so important in all of Lucy’s work. Brushstrokes and movement are obvious, expressive and playful, drawing the viewer into the detail. The point of her painting isn’t to directly represent what she sees but to celebrate the joyful colour, shapes and texture of flora and their wild landscapes.

When painting onto laser-cut wood, the process is cyclical and considered, and draws directly from previous paintings. Wooden shapes are taken from sketches and collages and drawn and overdrawn to give a final shape to be laser cut locally in Cornwall. There is a story behind the shape, a kind of muscle-memory and a series of choices Lucy makes in filling and then painting back-in the details of the florals.