Lucy Sugden

Tapestry and Woven Art

A glimpse & glimmer of garden life

Eclipse

by Lucy Sugden | 3 September 2024 | Blog | 0 Comments

Eclipse The ideas for this piece first began to accumulate in my mind during 2022. I had woven my wasp (Paper) and hoverfly (Lagoon) wings and was continuing to consider the beauty and importance of insects that people often fear or loathe. As a member of the...

Dahlia Field – Roger Aylett

by Lucy Sugden | 1 September 2024 | Blog | 0 Comments

Dahlia Field – a portrait for Roger Aylett Passion Determination Vision, an Eastern Region Textile Exhibition at St Albans Museum until 3rd November 2024 Roger Aylett (1934-2010) was a pioneering award-winning horticulturist and founder of Aylett Nurseries in St...

London – George Bernard Shaw

by Lucy Sugden | 16 July 2024 | Blog | 0 Comments

Passion Determination Vision is an Eastern Region Textile Forum exhibiton held at St Albans Museum from 12th July-3rd November 2024. An exhibition highlighting and celebrating local movers and shakers, a portrait exhibition, but not in any conventional sense; instead...

Tangerine Trees (Lucy In The Sky)

by Lucy Sugden | 13 July 2023 | Blog | 2 Comments

Tangerine Trees When I was a small girl I imagined Lucy, from The Beetles song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds, was floating around in a sky full of stars in her night gown. So when I began to consider ideas for the, A sixties Celebration "Flower Power" exhibition with...

Sustainable Art Practice

by Lucy Sugden | 8 January 2023 | Blog | 0 Comments

How Sustainable am I? In December 2022 Jo at Sust. Consulting ran a series of articles highlighting sustainable businesses in and around Letchworth Garden City. I was delighted to be featured and thought I would share Jo's article here as other people can me into...

Cascade

by Lucy Sugden | 6 May 2022 | Blog | 0 Comments

Cascade I can often have an idea or a title for a piece of work long before I develop and create it, Cascade was one of those ideas. The title first popped into my head at the beginning of 2019, I can date it as I mentioned it in an Instagram post on the 8th of...

Pollinators Paradise

by Lucy Sugden | 15 April 2022 | Blog | 0 Comments

Pollinators Paradise This tapestry was woven for the Eastern Region Textiles Forum exhibition with RHS Hyde Hall, Changing Earth. Work for the exhibition was created in response to the RHS report gardening in a changing climate. Pollinators Paradise is a celebration...

Sense of Place, Jungle Rain and Embrace

by Lucy Sugden | 11 February 2022 | Blog | 2 Comments

Sense of Place An exhibition by the Eastern Region Textile Forum. I began to research and question what the title meant to me and where my place or places were in the summer of 2021. I became interested with the Primal Landscape, the special bond which develops...

Weaving with waste

by Lucy Sugden | 9 September 2021 | Blog | 0 Comments

I grew up understanding the importance of reducing, reusing, and recycling, so it is second nature to me. My first memories of recycling items must be from the late 1980’s when I became tall enough to help my Dad put glass bottles into the big recycling containers in...

Eclipse in the Letchworth Open

by Lucy Sugden | Sep 18, 2024 | News

I am delighted to be showing my woven tapestry Eclispe as it takes it's second flight, this time to the Letchworth Open at The Broadway Gallery. Spot my woven moths in Hertfordshire's largest exhibition from September 18th -November 9th. For full information about the...

Craft in the Courtroom – St Albans Museum

by Lucy Sugden | Jul 12, 2024 | News

Join me and other Eastern Region Textile Forum members at this free, drop in event at St Albans Museum. I'll have various looms with me and will be weaving on my circle looms, which you will be wecome to have a go at weaving on if you wish. Attendees are encouraged...

Passion Determination Vision

by Lucy Sugden | Jul 10, 2024 | News

I am delighted to be showing two new woven artworks in this exhibition, Passion Determination Vision. An exhibition held in the Keepers Gallery at St Albans Museum and Gallery is open daily 11am-5pm from 12 July to 3 November 2024. The exhibition highlights and...

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