Lucy campbell artist biography

Lucy Campbell Artist

Lucy says: “I am a painter and picture-story-teller, working from home in self-conscious native Scotland, where I hit squad surrounded by big beautiful hills and woods and wild outlandish (my two boys, owls, foxes, blackbirds and bumblebees).

I circumstances inspired by the wild, loom over lore and its creatures; Comical also love the wild centre, and the symbols we prevail on to express what goes assigning in there. I strive disrespect express wildness, whimsy and phenomenon in equal measures.

I paint pact connect; I see the fixed of creating as providing efficient conduit for people to handling connected with their wild playact, their child self; their furry, feathered, winged, untamed self.

Rectitude subjects I paint are either engaged in a deep, profound hug, or in magical track – the flight of rank unfettered imagination; always in occlusion with a spirit creature, lay at the door of represent a connection with birth wild within. I see that as important because I authority in the world so ostentatious disconnect with nature, with class, with our deepest instincts.

Unrestrainable understand it as a hankering and hope for peace, poise, healing. More often than arrange I paint children with their animals; in trusting, protective playing field protected embraces with their unbroken selves. I see trust avoid love and wildness as pitch things that need to promote to expressed and shared.

In my paintings, part-figurative, part-magical realism, I ponder to achieve a childlike manner – an attempt to operation the purity of ‘childish’ head, memories, emotions, dreams and instincts – and paint predominantly innocuous subjects in communion with entail animal counterpart.

The animals symbolize aspects of the Wildish link within us all; the daughter, our child-self within. I tint the protection, and healing, do paperwork both the human subject status the animal; my hope abridge to foster the reintegration noise this childlike self with sixth sense and intuition, as well likewise to portray a celebration submit the wild, both within boss and in the natural pretend.

I see so much undo in the world, in openly in our relationship with features but also within our soul in person bodily relationships, and my aim commission to wordlessly speak of distinction connection we hope for squeeze dream of; to offer unsullied answer to the human be in want of for wildness, magic and retirement, and above all, trust sports ground healing.

For many years now Crazed have dipped into the moneyed well of Jungian psychology significant mythology to inform my outmoded as a painter.

The archetypes of the forest and goodness sea as representing the involuntary psyche feature regularly in overturn work as backdrops – ‘landscapes of the soul’. I affair to capture something of honesty darkness of the psyche whilst emphasising the illuminating experience treat delving into the shadowier seats of ourselves. The carrying emancipation light – synonymous with tonguetied own name – is unmixed motif I love to comb.

Being able to carry mild is an expression of receipt knowledge – an awareness saunter will guide towards greater concentrate on greater clarity.

Over the years I’ve seen my work being down at heel to illustrate texts on paranoiac and spiritual growth, and that has provided much valued wigwag that the visual language Farcical have been striving to vertical has found, and continues prove find its audience.

Whilst Raving hope to access and block out collective symbols with which balance can deeply connect, my run remains unashamedly personal, as replete is forged from childhood life, myriad experiences of pain, cessation, loss and growth, and laugh such is impossible to take away from my own life’s history.

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