Lucy Pulvers

Lucy’s paintings are all, in essence, an exploration of the inner emotional life of human experience. Lucy uses geometry, strong colour and bold lines to give her works an emotional power. These elements of colour and line are woven together to synthesize a surface world through which she aims to capture a moment in the inner life of the figure portrayed. Lucy was born and raised in Kyoto, Japan, and Japanese aesthetic culture has had a major impact on her work as an artist. In much traditional Japanese portraiture, the face and hands are the elements that give expression to the inner life of the figure and are often essentially drawings. The clothing of the figure, however, can be full of volume, geometry and colour. Lucy is also fascinated by Kabuki theater, where emotional climaxes in the drama are often expressed by a frozen moment or ‘mie’ in which the actor poses motionless but with extreme energy , bathed in dramatic lighting so the whole theatre holds its breath in the moment.