Lucy Park’s art practice is rooted in drawing and painting. Responding to the shapes and patterns found in her everyday environment and surrounding landscapes. Lucy uses energetic mark making and a rich, full colour palette.
“My paintings sit between reality and dream. The shapes might resemble landscapes or familiar places, but they’re also fictional, imagined spaces, drawn from memory of the everyday.
The immediacy of drawing allows me to explore ideas as they emerge, using oil pastels to make marks and introduce bursts of colour. These materials mimic crayons, encouraging a playful, childlike approach to image making. There’s movement in the lines, and often a sense of playfulness, hidden marks, scribbles, or unexpected details that reveal themselves slowly. As you move around the work, there’s a feeling of discovery, of being invited into a world that’s both familiar and unknown.
There’s a real joy in the act of making. It’s an energetic process that feels open and full of possibility. I’m interested in how curiosity and instinct can guide the work, and I try to stay responsive to whatever happens on the surface. This joy, and exploration is felt in the work, each piece contains a lively, animated quality that reflects the process of making them”.
Lucy graduated with a BA (Hons) Painting & Printmaking from the Glasgow School of Art ’25. We were delighted to feature Lucy’s work in our BREAKOUTS 2025 show – our renowned annual showcase of the best talent coming out of the Scottish Art Schools.
