Lucy Merriman is an East London-based artist and designer. Her fine art training started at Bournville College of Art, Birmingham, and later continued with a BA in Textile Design at Nottingham Trent University. Upon graduating, Lucy moved to London, and in 1992 established her first print studio in Shoreditch where she used traditional screen printing methods combined with hand painting. It was only later on in her practice that Lucy began to embrace digital processes, launching her into the world of design and printed apparel.
Lucy has always used a bold linear narrative driven by colour. This has provided her with a distinctive handwriting favoured by performance sportswear and lifestyle brands, as well global trend agencies.
During the lockdown of 2020, she returned to printmaking and painting to develop her process and set up a printmaking studio at home. Drawing on inspiration from her natural surroundings, plus influences from her design career, Lucy’s prints question the fusion of opposing themes. She creates a landscape of contradiction between the analogue and digital, and the natural and hyper-real, anchored by her signature use of colour where the two worlds exist in harmony. Her work evolves intuitively with the building of layers through mono printing techniques, with gestural abstract painting creating a visual language of emotion and connection.
Lucy also creates collections of limited edition giclée prints, and is currently working on a range of original mixed media art using collage, analogue mono printing, and painting.
As a fellow of the RSA she is passionate about nurturing young talent to gain fair entry into the arts. Lucy has worked with local charities Bootstrap and Arts Emergency, to share her experience and expertise mentoring young aspiring artists and designers.
www.lucymerrimanart.com
@lucymerrimanart
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