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

Tapestry Weaving Workshop – Letchworth Garden City

Tapestry Weaving Workshop – Letchworth Garden City

I am running my next woven tapestry sampler workshop on May 22nd, from 10am-12noon at The Wynd Gallery in Letchworth. Tickets are £25 and available through my eventbrite page  A tapestry weaving workshop that will teach you skills to create simple shapes. You will...

Kimpton Art Show

Kimpton Art Show

I was delighted to be invited to show my work and be the artist on the Plinth at this years Kimpton Art Show.  I am showing 5 of my woven sculptures on the plinths. Cascade will be joined by new works Wish, Bud, Bloom and Burst. Exhibitied in St Peter and St Paul's...

Tapestry Weaving Workshop – The Paxton Centre

Tapestry Weaving Workshop – The Paxton Centre

A workshop to accompany the Woven Worlds Exhibition  16th April Learn woven tapestry techniques while weaving your own tapestry sample in this relaxing afternoon workshop. A tapestry weaving workshop that will teach you skills to create simple shapes. You will weave...

Woven Worlds with the British Tapestry Group

Woven Worlds with the British Tapestry Group

Woven Worlds – Contemporary Tapestry Art  2nd – 29th April      Find me and a selection of my tapestries in London during April in Woven Worlds an exhibition of contemporary image-making and the ancient art of tapestry weaving combine to create rich and varied worlds...

Prints at The Wynd Gallery

Prints at The Wynd Gallery

Find a selection of my framed and mounted prints at The Wynd Gallery in Letchworth Garden City as part of the new all members group show which runs until Sunday 12th February. A selection of my mounted prints can also be found in my Shop available with free UK...

Garden House Hospice Christmas Fair Letchworth

Garden House Hospice Christmas Fair Letchworth

My last Fair, and event, of the year will be on Sunday 11th December, in Letchworth supporting and helping to raise funds for Garden House Hospice.  Their Christmas Fair is held at The Cloisters on Barrington Road from 12-4pm and is always a wonderful event with over...

Hitchin British Schools Museum Christmas Fair

Hitchin British Schools Museum Christmas Fair

Sunday 4th December I'll be back in Hitchin at the British Schools Museum at their Christmas Fair. I'll have a selection of tapestries, woven art, cards and prints with me along some wooly weaves and flowers. Come and find out about my tapestry weaving workshops and...

Hitchin Art Hub Christmas Market

Hitchin Art Hub Christmas Market

Saturday 3rd December Hitchin Art Hub will be holding their Christmas Art Market in Hitchin Town Square. You'll find me there from 9.30am-3.30pm with my woven art, cards, prints, and a few festive flowers. I'll be sharing a stall with my Wynd Gallery buddy Hayley, pop...

December Christmas Fairs in Hertfordshire

December Christmas Fairs in Hertfordshire

I'll be at a few Christmas Fairs during December, and the Just a Card and Handmade Hour online Christmas Fair continues until 23rd December. Locally you can find me On Saturday 3rd (weather permitting) in Hitchin Town Square with the Hitchin Art Hub. I'm back in...