Lucy Sugden

Wonderful weaving created with repurposed fibres.

Sharing my love of gardens and natural habitats.


 

 

My work isn’t just about Pretty Flowers

Tangerine Trees (Lucy In The Sky)

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

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

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

 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

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

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...

Latest News About Lucy Sugden

Life’s Warp You Make It

Life’s Warp You Make It

Life’s Warp You Make It A Woven Tapestry Exhibition by Letchworth Settlement Learners April 3rd – May 26th The Letchworth Settlement, Nevells Road, Letchworth Garden City, SG6 4UB An exhibition of tapestries and woven art created by learners attending Lucy Sugden’s...

Featured Artist at The Wynd

Featured Artist at The Wynd

From one display straight into the next, this time back on home ground as the featured artist at The Wynd Gallery in Letchworth. Until April 5th I have taken over the window with my woven art and filled it with a floral display of work for sale. Only 3 of my single...

Contemporary Textiles Fair 2024

Contemporary Textiles Fair 2024

I am delighted to be taking part in this years Contemporary Textiles Fair at Landmark Arts Centre, 15th-17th March. You will find me with my woven tapestries and art on stand 14 during the fair. You can also join me on my eco tapestry taster workshop from 2-5pm on...

Letchworth and Hitchin Christmas Events

Letchworth and Hitchin Christmas Events

Fairs and events in the run up to Christmas I'll be out and about in Letchworth and Hitchin with my woven work in the run up to Christmas. Wynd Gallery - Christmas Exhibition 21st November - 24th December Meadow tapestries Purple and Grey are available from the...

Material Evidence at Courtyard Arts Hertford

Material Evidence at Courtyard Arts Hertford

MATERIAL EVIDENCE 31 October - 25 November As one exhibition ends another begins and you can find my woven art work at Courtyard Arts in Hertford during November in a Herts Textiles exhibitions. I have a few pieces in this exhibition, two new meadow tapestries, Meadow...

An amazing week talking tapestry and woven art

An amazing week talking tapestry and woven art

Wow what and amazing week I had during my solo exhibition Quietly Connected at The Wynd Gallery in Letchworth.  I can't quite believe how wonderful the reactions and responses to my work and ideas were, amazing feedback and so lovely to get so many visitors enthused...

Tapestry Talk – the in’s, out’s and ideas!

Tapestry Talk – the in’s, out’s and ideas!

Talking Tapestry Thursday 26th October 7pm The Wynd Gallery, Letchworth,  From flying carpets to fishing line and everything in-between! I am hosting one of my tapestry talks during my exhibition Quietly Connected at The Wynd Gallery. I’ll be taking you through my...

Quietly Connected Opens October 21st

Quietly Connected Opens October 21st

Quietly Connected opens on Saturday 21st October at The Wynd Gallery  I will be showing new work and work that I wouldn’t normally have at the Wynd Gallery, along with smaller framed tapestries, woven flowers, and new prints and cards. The exhibition opens Saturday at...

Workshops and a talk for Quietly Connected

Workshops and a talk for Quietly Connected

To accompany my exhibition, 'Quietly Connected' I am holding a series of events at The Wynd Gallery. Tapestry sampler workshops suitable for teens and adults on Monday 23rd October, Family weaving workshops for ages 6-12yrs and their adult on Wednesday 25th October...