Lucy Pratt

Lucy Pratt is a figurative painter of ordinary people and extraordinary places. From her home in the Cotswolds to the temples of India and all around the globe, her paintings take us on a wonderous journey, capturing the everyday and the unexpected with an expressive intensity that reveals the inherent beauty of our shared existence.

Lucy’s still life, landscape, interior and scene paintings radiate a captivating inner light, a living vibration that brings with it the sounds and scents, the chaos or calm, of a particular time and place in the world. Lucy travels widely, translating her passion for engaging with new cultures and communities into artworks which highlight the essential character of each subject or scene: a silk robed mahout astride his beloved elephant, stiff collared wedding guests in a country garden, flirtatious sunbathers by a sparkling pool…are all depicted in her paintings with a subtle sense of wit and poignancy.

Narrative, and the symbolic interpretation of nature are also key to her works: a lone blossom tree on an English hillside becomes a charismatic sitter under Lucy’s appreciative gaze, worthy of its own regal portrait; a sun dappled lane between hedgerows becomes a magical pathway towards endless possibility.

Over her thirty-year career, Lucy’s affectionate eye for humanity and the natural world has made her one of the UK’s leading contemporary artists. She continues to exhibit internationally and to travel for inspiration.