Midnight in Winter

This is winter. Not the cute, cosy kind with fairy lights and hot chocolate (though I love that too). This is the other kind of winter — the one where you feel like you're moving through fog and you genuinely can't tell if the heaviness is just you, or if everyone is feeling it and just... not saying so.
Midnight in Winter is about those harder seasons of life. The ones where you're carrying things that are heavy, that don't have easy answers, that feel turbulent and unsettling and very, very real.
But here's what I kept coming back to as I was painting it — there is so much beauty in that place too. The light doesn't disappear. It just gets harder to see from where you're standing. The storm always ends. And there is something forged in you during the hard seasons that nothing else could have built.
This painting holds all of that. The turbulence AND the light breaking through.
Acrylic on canvas, framed in Australian oak.

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Lucy creates abstract works that explore the dynamic relationships between movement, texture, and colour. Her medium of choice is acrylic paints on canvas, where she uses bold, bright colours and energetic strokes to convey a sense of movement through her paintings. Lucy uses built up paint to create texture, which shifts shadows throughout the day as the light changes, creating a constantly evolving experience for the viewer.
Drawing from her background as a maritime engineer, Lucy's understanding of hydrodynamics and weather systems deeply informs the fluidity and motion in her work. The ever-changing landscapes of Tasmania, particularly the mountainous terrain and patterns found when bushwalking, are also a significant source of inspiration for Lucy. These are reflected in the layers of her paintings, as she builds up many layers of paint to create a sense of motion and flow that invites the eye to move across the canvas.