About Lucy Cade

‘Working back from the deadening equivocation of the camera’s eye, Lucy hints at the unseen drama of our solipsistic lives, creating a mood of ambiguous and ambivalent memory’(Creative Week, September 2005)

My paintings are often based on old family photos, film stills or ‘found images’ from magazines. By transferring photographs into paintings colour by colour, shape by shape, I can accentuate their reality or unreality by working creatively with the generalizing eye of the camera. The essence of a person or a moment in time can be drawn out through subtle distortions and changes, reductions and abstractions. The faces recede or emerge from the haze of memory.

The mood created is one that suggests an existence constantly on the verge of an uncertain revelation, in the tantalising manner in which memories often hover at the back of the mind, suggesting everything and revealing nothing.