artist - Lucy knox
Take A VERY daggy HUMAN, mix IN A ‘slightly’ OVER ANALYTICAL MIND, A DECENT PINCH OF WITT, A MAD-HATTER FOR ALL THINGS ADVENTURE, & A CELLULAR NEED SINCE (B.T.A.O.D - before the age of dinosaurs) TO BE creative IN ANY & ALL WAYS
- you get…LK
A wanderer who dreams of places I haven’t yet travelled.
I paint the dream of destinations I haven’t yet met, and then the experience of exploring the corners of our world.
My creative process is two fold; the imagined vision of the explored on canvas (pre-travel), and the re-imagined creation (post-travel), woven once more through modes of expressive colour based on my lived experience.
An avid lover of travel and adventure throughout my life, this desire to capture my dream woven expeditions was such an organic happening. As I step into my creative space I approach the creation of a new work as an explorer. I shut out the noise, and tap into curiosity. Our often forgotten or seldom exercised ‘child mind’, and really lean into the limitless realms of ‘imagine’. As if in my own form of guided meditation questions erupt; What season are we in? What does the terrain sound like beneath my feet? What can I feel, see? etc. This is how the expedition of my abstracted creations begin, a layered kaleidoscope of a curious mind’s dance, a destination never explored but imagined, and the adventures recreated on canvas.
This practice is approached in a similar way for the re-imagined works. My creative space upon post-travel requires an explorer mindset that is confluent, so that all memories from the lived experience can flow-freely through to the work. The canvas almost becomes a window, or a door of sorts, a look-through into worlds. A surface for me to recreate the experience as if you were there, having your own sensory overload, connecting with that parcel of time, being engulfed by each moment yourself.
My pieces take you on an interpretive journey of landscape through the mediums of oil sticks and acrylic. With each gaze my works grow in-depth as more layers emerge through uncovered etchings and subtle brush strokes. Every inch of the artworks capture my dream-weave of what the place in the world might be like - a true look into the projected inner workings of my mind.
A kaleidoscope of refracted colour, abstract, lyrical, expressive.
Always evolving & transitioning, my hope is to continue to explore bringing you work that you can not only enjoy on your walls, but use out in the world to create your own meaningful memories with.