artist - Lucy knox

Take A VERY daggy/GOOFY HUMAN, mix IN A ‘slightly’ OVER ANALYTICALly MINDED BRAIN, A DECENT PINCH OF WITT, A DURACELL BUNNY ENGINE, 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.

As I step into my creative space to unlock my imaginative mind, allowing me to create my pre-travel pieces, I start by asking and answering my self questions. Now, I choose not to use google, instagram or any other media platforms for “inspiration”, and when I say that, I’m not denying I haven’t seen an image of a destination I’ve painted before, because that’s simply not true. What I mean to say is, I shut out the noise, and use my ‘kid brain’, child mind as it’s also known, and I really imagine (what season are we in? what does the terrain sound like beneath my feet? what can I feel? etc). This is how the journey of my abstracted weave is initiated, a layered kaleidoscope of an inner child’s dance, a place never travelled but imagined, and all played out on canvas.

This practice is explored in a similar way for my post travel works, but in a re-imagined form. The canvas becomes a window for me to recreate the destinations, moments, experiences, people, memories, adventures, the landscape as I lived it. Consuming every inch of the canvas in an attempt to recreate the destination as if you were standing there, seeing it, experiencing it all in that same 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 paintings capture my dream 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, so abstract, lyrical and beautiful.

Always evolving & transitioning, my hope is to continue to explore bringing you art that you can not only enjoy on your walls, but use out in the world to create your own meaningful memories with.

The adventure is in the journey of the unknown.

Luce x.