Lucy Hersey
Lucy Hersey creates paintings that are as much of the land; as they are about the local landscape. Using locally collected earth, rocks and clays, she hand makes her own naturally pigmented ‘earth paint’, drawing inspiration from location and materials to create works with significant commitment to process and connection to place.
Lucy has been shortlisted for the Ravenswood Australian Women’s Art Prize and Omnia Prize, and her work and practice has been featured in Channel 9 production ‘Good Chef Hunting’, Country Style Magazine and The Design Files.
As a self-taught painter, Lucy draws on her background in medical research to bring an experimental, yet methodical approach to paint making. Her unique technique draws on the methods of the Old Masters, grinding and hand mulling paint from powdered pigments; whilst considering the cultural and historical significance of colour. Now living as a cattle farmer in regional Victoria, her low-impact art practice is integral to a life that relies on the natural cycles that sustain a life on the land, and honours the landscape she loves and knows intimately, both as a custodian and as an artist.