About Lucy
Lucy is currently open to freelance work whether you need advice on business, marketing, or fundraising strategies, or you need a skilled project director - she can support. Drop her a line at hello@lucypickford.art.
Lucy 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 her London Grows show was at Batsford books and gallery in November 2023.
Throughout 2020 she went online with several virtual group shows. 2021 saw her return to the real world exhibiting in several group shows since. She curated the ‘Crossing the Liminal’ group show for ArtCan at Hampstead Garden Gallery in June/July 2021. 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 has previously worked at Open City (known for the Open House Festival) as COO and then Interim CEO.
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 researches and 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