Lucy Sugden

Lucy Sugden

Tapestry and Woven Art

A glimpse & glimmer of garden life

 

Silver Barred Moth

by | 15 February 2025 | Blog | 0 Comments

The Silver Barred moth, three new tapestries woven for exhibition to highlight a small moth that inhabitants the Cambridgeshire Fens. Woven for the British Tapestry Eastern Region Groups Fenlands exhibition at Courtyard Arts in Hertford from 4th -29th March 2025.A...
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Ella and the Caterpillars

by | 26 November 2024 | Blog | 0 Comments

Ella and the CaterpillarsThe deconstruction and reconstruction of a Spirella corset.I was intrigued by the role the Spirella Company played in making Irvin parachutes during the war, photo’s I found showed the Spirella buildings ballroom with rows of sewing machines...
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Eclipse

by | 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...
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Dahlia Field – Roger Aylett

by | 1 September 2024 | Blog | 1 Comment

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...
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London – George Bernard Shaw

by | 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...
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80% (Disappearance)

by | 20 November 2023 | Blog | 0 Comments

80% (Disappearance) Woven Tapestry  This was quite an emotional piece to weave. I have always loved butterflies and moths, as a young girl I remember the buddleia bush in the back garden being full of butterflies in the summer so to learn that since the 1970’s there...
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Tangerine Trees (Lucy In The Sky)

by | 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...
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Sustainable Art Practice

by | 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...
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Cascade

by | 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...
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Latest News About Lucy Sugden

Lucy Sugden is taking part in Herts Open Studios 2019

by | Aug 26, 2019 |

Where to find Lucy during Herts Open Studios Hertfordshire Artists are opening their doors to visitors during September and this year Lucy will be taking part by exhibiting from 7th-29th September with 3 other local artists as the **Baldock 4 at the Old Town Hall*at...

Lucy Sugden in Hertfordshire magazine

Lucy Sugden in Hertfordshire magazine

by | Aug 16, 2019 |

#Weaving and Herts Open Studios Described as a **weaver with a difference*in Septembers edition of Hertfordshire Life Magazine, in an article about this years Herts Open Studios. Showing photographs taken by Lucy Sugden of her woven work using monofilament thread, the...

Exhibitions in Hertfordshire July 2019

Exhibitions in Hertfordshire July 2019

by | Jun 11, 2019 |

This summer I'm exhibiting work in two Hertfordshire venues The Affordable Art Sale Pop Up Art Exhibition, 6th & 7th July, @Naomi Czuba Dance Studio, Unit 16, Bizspace Alexander Road, AL2 1JG and Herts Visual Arts Big Art Fair, 13th & 14th July @The Hitchin...