Lucy Reid

Born in 1970, Cleethorpes, Lincolnshire, U.K.

Resides in the U.K.

Lucy is a landscape artist who works completely in hand stitch.

The Lincolnshire artist is best known for their free style, stitched miniature landscapes.

They investigate the intimacy, spirit and sense of place.

Lucy endeavours to capture the feeling of isolation and the wildness of a location.

The artist has woven these feelings into their landscapes and will endeavour to continue to capture the moment from their personal photographs.

They draw 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.

1986 – 88: Bath College of Further Education: A two-year art and design course including ‘A’ levels Art and History of Art.

1990 – 91: Bristol Polytechnic: Completed a one-year Foundation Course in Art and Design with a distinction.

1992 – 94: The London College of Fashion: Achieving a BTEC HND Theatre Studies: Costume Interpretation.

Exhibitions

2025

‘Art of the Now’, The Usher Gallery Open Exhibition, Lincoln.

‘Past, Present and Future’ organised by art@one.com, and held at: The lodge, Hemingford Grey House, Cambridgeshire. 

2022

‘The Art of Embroidery’ organised by The Worshipful company of Broderers at Bankside Gallery London.

2021 

Solo landscape exhibition at The Ropewalk, in The Craft Gallery, Barton upon Humber.

2020 – 21 

‘Winter Exhibition’ at The Biscuit factory, Newcastle.

2020 

‘Filling Spaces’ exhibition at the Pop^Up Gallery, Scunthorpe.

2019 

‘Landmarks’ exhibition with East Coast 7 at Caistor Heritage and Arts Centre, North Lincolnshire.

‘Autumn Exhibition’ at The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle.

2018 – 19 

‘Inspired by Botany’ exhibition an artist collaboration at The Steel Room Gallery, Brigg.

2017 

‘Summer Exhibition’ at The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle.

2016 

Joint landscape exhibition at The Golden Ball Community Pub, York.

Collections

Work held in a variety of private collections.

Articles

Lucy Reid’s Pastoral Textile Art: Ether Signposts #34/52a

Work History

Lucy originally worked as a Free lance Theatre Costumier in London.

Prior to their career as a costumier, Lucy designed and made bags and purses to sell at craft fairs and markets.

Whilst they where a costumier, Lucy found that their strengths and preferences were in the surface decoration of costume; to embellish a garment became their strong point and a direction that they followed overall, stemming from a lifelong love and practice of hand stitching.

During their period of motherhood and family focus, Lucy developed their stitched art. They experimented with a few ideas over these years and this exploration evolved into the small pieces that they produce today. 

Artists Collective

In 2019, Lucy was invited to join the former East Coast 7, a collective of artists practicing in the East Anglian area. The common goal was to bring their unique surroundings to life through a variety of approaches. One of their main strengths was that they worked across a range of disciplines, both two and three dimensional. East Coast 7 used the tools and techniques of painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, and printmaking to respond to the nuances of their area and to look beyond the visible.
East Coast 7’s vision was to support each other in the continuing development of their own art practice and to encourage the public’s engagement with art.