Lucy Schappy

Lucy Schappy’s wildly optimistic paintings are a form of visual poetry that express her love of life. Symbols and colour resonate together to form a dreamy playground for the heart and mind. Her process is spontaneous and improvisational. Starting each new piece is an adventure that has no known end in sight. The process leads the journey and the outcome is unknown, a conversation evolves on the canvas of question and answer, each mark leading the next in a dance of brush and paint. The resolution of each piece comes at the end of a struggle to find balance and harmony amongst all of the aspects of the visual field.
Lucy’s work is informed by the things she cherishes the most: light and colour, nature and space and time. Abstract work invites personal interpretation and engages the imagination, every painting tells a story and that story is unique to the viewer. Playful optimism is the common theme repeating in Schappy’s odes of gratitude to the world.

ART INTERIORS, Toronto, Ontario
HSQUARED GALLERY, Fernie, BC
WEBSTER GALLERY/ CALGARY
JEN TOUGH GALLERY/ SAN FRANSISCO: group show Nov 2018
LEGEND NANO GALLERY/ OCEANSIDE, SANTA FE
COAST GALLERY/ LAGUNA BEACH
ART SAN DIEGO: October 18 – 21, 2018
FILBERG FESTIVAL: Comox, BC: August 3-6, 2018
TOSH GALLERY: Qualicum, BC: June 25- August 6, 2018
32 LAKES: Powell River, BC: Dec 2017- Aug 2018
FILBERG FESTIVAL: Comox Valley, BC: August, 2017
NEW WORK: Hollyburn Country Club: Vancouver: January 2017
BIG IDEAS SHOW: Paula White Diamond Gallery: Waterloo: December 2016
SQUARE FOOT SHOW: Courtenay: December 2016
SOOKE FINE ART SHOW: Sooke: July 2016
RIVER CITY ARTS FESTIVAL: Campbell River: July 2016
ART VANCOUVER: Vancouver: May 2016
SQUARE FOOT SHOW: ART ALCHEMY, Courtenay: Nov 2015
SUMMER LOVE: ART ALTELIER, Victoria: Aug 2015
RED ART GALLERY: Victoria: 2010- 2015
LOVE ART FAIR: TORONTO: Apr 2015
SQUARE FOOT SHOW: ART ALCHEMY: June 2014
COLLABORATION: ART 508: Aug 2014
ART WORX: Qualicum: 2009- 2013
SQUARE FOOT SHOW: ART ALCHEMY: June 2013
SOLIEL: PURPLE ONION: Comox: June 2012
SOLSTICE ON THE ROOF: Comox: June 2012
SQUARE FOOT SHOW: ART ALCHEMY: June 2012