Lucy Gow Northamptonshire, United Kingdom

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Having completed a degree in Fine Art I went on to complete an MA Fine Art at BCU . I revel in exploring, unpicking, and going on a journey to see where the art takes me. When I paint and draw, I really do feel the work emanates from within and emerges, bursting forth. I embrace my gestural approach, and investigate large scale using oil, oil sticks, and water soluble crayons.

Inspiration has been derived from the landscape, my relationship with it, response to it, and a quirky perspective. Looking out into the outside expanse of the sky, hills, or sea is also a reminder of our smallness and magnitude of the world. I explore these landscapes, feeling the topography and investigate the forms. I paint gesturally and intuitively with energy, impulse, and spontaneity. And, although I make sketches and experiment on cardboard and paper these are there to guide. I enjoy the freedom of the mark making, the viscosity, texture, and unctuousness of the paint, and getting lost and immersed in the flow of the moment. This makes the painting interesting – it is as much about the substance, as the subject matter and from the absorption of all the associated things from people, places, smells and emotions: the paint becomes the elements. I am not trying to replicate the coastline, roadside or garden scene, nor trying to depict identifiable landmarks and masses.