Lucy Mathers

Contemporary mixed-media artist and tutor

I am a story chaser

Artist Lucy Mathers stands in front of her paintings at the Heseltine Gallery

Intimate, close-up responses to familiar items and places.

Domestic moments, time in nature, welcoming, calm and quiet, a moment in time. An invitation to pause, look and wonder what a place or object has to tell us: the memories they hold, for me and the viewer.

Visual patterns are a source of comfort and I naturally seek them out. Disrupting pattern as a catalyst – removing what we ‘know’ to learn more about what we don’t. Transferring this method from my scientific background into my current art practice.

I’m interested in what we expect to happen along the way and what’s actually happening, ‘what is the story?’, in-between.

Image of artist Lucy Mathers showing a close up of her hands with blue and green ink on

Each painting develops by working out how best to tell its story through the application of acrylic paint, home-made collage papers created with a gel plate, and other media.

Very little acrylic makes its way into landfill (or our water supply), the materials I use for clean up can also be found repurposed in my paintings.

Previously a senior lecturer in Multimedia and Animation Production at De Montfort University and National Teacher Fellow, I now teach Gel Plate Printing workshops in my home studio.

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