From the urban edgelands of Hackney Marshes to the vastness of the Lake District, a thread connects ancestry and place in Lucy Merriman’s paintings.

 

Influenced by a career spanning more than three decades in textile design, her current practice explores the materiality of paint through abstraction and the relationship between memory, place and the emotional resonance left behind.  Her work considers how traces of the past remain present in our shared experience of the land.

 

Working intuitively with oil, acrylic and marble dust, Lucy balances control and chance, creating tension and anticipation. She allows the materials to respond freely while guiding the painting through gesture, texture, surface and colour. One mark informs the next, with the process gradually revealing a sense of landscape. Her paintings

move between representation and abstraction, occupying a liminal space between thought, memory and imagination, inviting the viewer to reconsider their own perception of the natural world.

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​Lucy is a British artist working in East London.  Originally from Birmingham, she graduated from Nottingham Trent University with a BA in Textile Design, establishing her first print studio in Shoreditch 1992.  In the lockdown of 2020, Lucy shifted focus from design to artistic practice primarily in painting and printmaking.​ Lucy has widely exhibited at group shows and art fairs including; The Affordable Art Fair, The Other Art Fair London and Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair. She was selected for ING Discerning Eye 2023, Mall Galleries, 100/50 - Unit 1 Gallery Workshop London and Lido Open 2025.  Recent exhibitions include Well Hung Painting Prize 2026, 'A Day in May' John Martin Gallery, and Terrace Gallery x Auto Amor Vol.3.  Her work is held in private collections in the UK and Internationally.