Lucy Sugden

Tapestry and Woven Art

A glimpse & glimmer of garden life


 

Ella and the Caterpillars

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...

Eclipse

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

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

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...

80% (Disappearance)

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...

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...

Latest News About Lucy Sugden

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...