Lucy’s work goes beyond what she merely sees in the landscape. She journeys inside it, through rock and through time, playing with ideas of scale and transformation to animate the inanimate and transcend familiar notions of what a landscape painting should be. It’s an almost tactile experience. You join forces with the work - become part of it.
I love this picture. It’s of seismologist, Frank A. Perret listening to the Solfatara Volcano in Italy in 1917 and it’s from the title page of the 2011 Folio edition of Richard Fortey’s, The Earth: An Intimate History.
I visited Titian at the National Gallery last week and on my way out, following the Covid-friendly one-way exit route, the dark, gnarly shadows of a small painting in Room 44, caught my eye…
Keeping my head stock still, I dart my eyes from left to right, wondering if I do it quickly enough, I might trick them into focusing on more of the horizon than I can actually see. It doesn’t work.
