Lucy Reid

Born in 1970, U.K.

Lucy is an artist who works completely in hand stitch.
They investigate intimacy, isolation, wilderness, spirit and sense of place.
The sky holds a particular fascination for them, as it is never the same, always
changing and dominates the landscape in most parts of their home county of
Lincolnshire, the sky becomes the landscape. Lucy is in awe of the coast, dunes, fenlands and woodland, quiet spaces in urban areas, that exciting liminal space between field and forest, building and street. These places arouse different feelings: comforting, unsettling, eerie, lonely, peaceful, they can bring solace and rest, inspiration or a decision to be made. The artist weaves these feelings into their work. Each landscape is worked from personal photographs.
Working landscapes in miniature creates a close, intimate relationship that is the main drive behind Lucy’s work. By working free style and using threads as ‘paint’, the images can be worked in to and layered up to create depth, and texture, as different coloured threads can be used together. Placing such small works into black frames with black mounting card, pops the image out to the viewer. This simultaneously draws the onlooker, back into the landscape, demanding attention and further inspection. Lucy draws with stranded cotton thread on to calico. The finished pieces are then stretched over a canvas and fastened at the back by stitching. The canvases are fixed on to black mounting card and set in to black box frames.