Biography

Lucy Godwin is known for her expressionist contemporary paintings that combine creative mark-making, bold gestural application of colour and dynamic examination.

Creating intuitively generates unexpected results in her process-driven practice as her brushes dance to music, ranging from Tupac Shakur to Mozart. Lucy's paintings challenge the viewer to journey around the canvas, enjoying the twists and turns of her engaging compositions.

Working alla prima, in the flow, she is often surprised at the outcome as the painting evolves as a visceral and therapeutic practice, driven by music and song lyrics.

Viewers of Lucy’ work connect own experiences and history to the marks on the canvas and become absorbed in the dynamic world of Lucy Godwin's art, where energy, movement, and bold colours converge in neoexpressionist abstracts and figurative works that challenge perceptions, provoke questions and immersion in their own experience of the canvas' message and movement. a celebration of personal expression.

Lucy lives and works in North Vancouver, British Columbia, where she completed her formal art education at Emily Carr University. Seasonally, Lucy stays in Beziers, Occitane and travels to art exhibitions in France, often retracing the footsteps of the Fauves and Picasso. Her paintings have been collected across Canada, Mexico, USA, France and Turkey.

Artist Statement

I'm an expressionist artist driven by movement, colour and question. My abstracts are microclimates of exploration and intuition, overcoming chaos as the work builds to reveal the unforeseen, alla prima. My figuratives are triggered by injustice, or to celebrate and exalt.

Inspired by an exploration of colour, lush and loose, the paint swirls and mingles and I'm in the flow. My brushes dance, a visceral reaction to music - hip hop or raggaeton or Mozart or Handel. I paint en français, the language of my happy childhood in Genève, Switzerland