Lucy draws on traditional painting methods and popular culture to explore femininity, desire, and the agony and ecstasy of romantic love. Her work is auto-fictitious, depicting cinematic snapshots that speak to the complexity of femininity in contemporary culture.

Her background in photography and fashion directly influence her work, which is highly staged and employs filmic devices to bring the viewer sharply to the moment.  Lucy’s approach to image-making is rooted in nostalgia and sometimes sentimentality, largely influenced by a long-standing fascination with Girlhood and its growing cultural resonance.

Lucy’s practice aims to marry the surface and the symbol, by combining a deep consideration of the materiality of painting and a desire to uncover the emotional truths within it. She is interested in the fantasy of femininity and the fantasy of love - the double bind of longing and beauty, and terror and self betrayal.

Lucy has shown in London and Cape Town, and resides in London. She is currently working on a body of work that will be exhibited at Southern Guild, Cape Town in May 2026.