Lucy Inder

Based in Stroud, Lucy is a  landscape painter whose paintings are full of colour and pattern reminiscent of the Fauvists.  After attending art school in Cardiff, Lucy had a teaching career in which she taught art at secondary school level for over 20 years.   She currently combines a career as an art tutor with painting from her studio.  Using both oils and acrylics, her recent work records the beautiful hills and valleys surrounding her home town, celebrating the colours and textures of the countryside.

She says of her work:

“I love the five valleys and surrounding hills for the inspiration they provide.  Ever changing through the seasons.
I see walking though the hills and valleys as a feast of hues and patterns.  Evocative repetitious lines and marks of the landscape reminding me of childhoold textiles, patchwork shapes and tasty colour.   Wandering, often deep in thought, I search for shapes, colours and lost horizons to draw from and paint.”

“Painting has enabled me to build my own language of expression, creating marks and layers of colour and texture to describe the views which shape my life…I like to find shapes which sing out like jewels of colour and translate them into my own painted creations.”

Since painting full time, Lucy has had two sell out exhibitions in Stroud.