Lucy Eglington

“My latest work is a series of paintings that combine people with taxonomic birds and moths to represent dreams, things forgotten, ideas not yet realised and times past. My subjects are sleeping, thinking, engaged in their inner worlds; allowing the winged manifestations of their psyches to be the viewer’s first point of visual conversation.
I like the taxonomic birds because they are ‘frozen’, some even in mid-flight; full of beauty but tagged and going nowhere on their pedestals. The moths also suffer a stagnation juxtaposed with their former life and vibrancy. They are so delicate, and so fleeting. Transfixed with a pin (a slightly vicious human act) they become fragile representations, almost shadows”.
-Lucy Eglington

Lucy’s romantic, dreamlike works are suffused with a frankness that creates an almost gothic dimension. There is a realism and poignancy just beneath their rich and lavish fancy. Skilfully executed oil portraiture; they have classic beauty, but contain enough mystery and darkness to offer striking depth.

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