Christopher Hall

Lucy Best-Shaw

Lucy was born and brought up in Kent, on a farm at the foot of the North Downs. Her mother painted and sculpted in a variety of media and taught fine art.

She was encouraged throughout her childhood to paint, draw and sculpt.

After studying fine art at 'A' Level she continued with painting, drawing and sculpture as a hobby for many years, sometimes as part of a group or class whilst bringing up her two children and pursuing a career in nursing. Moving north in 1989 to live in Todmorden, then Leeds in 1997 where the contrasts of hills, mills and moorlands of the Pennines, and the parkland walks and Victorian reservoirs and canals of the Leeds area to that of the rolling hills and flat marshes of her childhood continue to fire her imagination.

She has recently been studying with Andres Jaroslavsky in York and Luke Thompson in Leeds/ Wakefield as well as taking sessions on-line with The London Drawing Group.

Some of her work has been exhibited nationally as well as on-line in various exhibitions. She has won prizes locally for some of her landscapes and in 2019 had a landscape featured in Country Life Magazine illustrating an article about a walk in the Trough of Bowland.

She is inspired by the Impressionists and likes to capture and suggest to the viewer the scene she has experienced in oil or acrylic paint, using brushes and palette knives.

She leads workshops on drawing portraits, drawing form, palette knife painting, tonal painting (based on the Zorn/ Apelles Palette), and is currently running monthly sessions on Life Drawing Exercises.