Lucy Hersey

When the cosmos are quiet, all that remains is dirt and rain, wind and light.

Lucy Hersey creates paintings that are as much of the land; as they are about the landscape. Using locally collected earth, rocks and clays, she handmakes 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 powdered pigments. 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.

Lucy is represented by Leighton Contemporary, Please contact Jess about purchasing paintings, or visit the studio anytime! You’ll find Lucy at 1 Clarence Street Loch, Victoria (1 hour drive South East of Melbourne).

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I acknowledge the Bunurong people, who are the traditional custodians of the land on which I live and work, and am deeply thankful for the knowledge that has been generously shared with me around the use of plants, earth and traditional mediums.