About Lucy
Lucy Pickford has been painting since she was about 8 and hasn’t stopped. She originally trained as a Landscape Architect and has since undertaken an Art History MA, she draws on her experiences to bring an alternative perspective to the landscapes she paints.
The landscape architecture has never quite left her and she still looks at the world through its streetscapes and thresholds, looking at the combination of human design and nature in everything that she experiences.
Her Japan series was exhibited at Hoxton 253 in July 2019 and she is currently working on her London series. Throughout 2020 she went online with several virtual group shows. 2021 saw her return to the real world, curating the ‘Crossing the Liminal’ group show for ArtCan at Hampstead Garden Gallery from 26th June - 11th July. She also had her work featured on the screens of Flannels Oxford Street store as part of the W1 Curates MakeItBlue initiative.
She is a proud member of ArtCan, a contemporary arts organisation and was interviewed by Gita Joshi as part of her Curator’s Salon artist interviews.
As a modern renaissance woman, when not painting she ran a boutique marketing, branding, and design agency, OLGA Agency, for organisations in the cultural and sustainability industries where her last project was shortlisted for a 2021 edie sustainability leaders award. She now works for Open City as COO. She has given talks on design and visual identity including at Pecha Kucha LDN and the Hackney Business Network. In 2020 she was interviewed by UN Women as a Leader in Action.
When she has the time she also writes -
~10 articles on art and design predominantly covering the mid-century modern movement, and pottery and porcelain (Japanese and European).
Most recent - Shoji Hamada