Weathered Berg I Painting

“The forms of nature are functional. And, precisely because they are functional, we find them beautiful.” — Andreas Feininger. Lucy Carty is a mixed media artist living and working in London. Her work is informed by the earth’s ever-changing natural environment, continually being modelled, carved, and coloured by the laws of nature. These natural forces and processes - gravity, tectonic movement, flooding, weathering and erosion for example - inspire her methods and use of materials, often resulting in complex, layered artworks that are interwoven and reworked like palimpsests, aged over time. In 2014 she returned from a trip to Iceland, where volcanic and geothermal activity makes for a dynamic, volatile landscape and translated her experiences there into encaustic and mixed media artworks quite literally made of fire. In 2016 Lucy travelled to Antarctica with The Royal Navy, aboard HMS Protector as Artist in Residence for the Friends of The Scott Polar Research Institute. The programme, which was sponsored by Bonhams, provided her with a unique opportunity to experience firsthand one of the world’s most spectacular landscapes. More recently, she returned to the UK after a yearlong trip around the world with her husband and two children, trekking in Peru, Patagonia, Borneo and the Himalayas along the way. Lucy studied Biology and Environmental Studies at Manchester Metropolitan University and previously worked as a landscape architect before becoming an artist. She studied figurative sculpture at The Art Academy in London.