Lucy Sugden

Lucy Sugden

Tapestry and Woven Art

 

Kaleidoscope – Woven Butterflies Art Installation

by | 8 May 2025 | Blog | 0 Comments

Kaleidoscope An outdoor installation I was absolutely delighted to have my submission accepted for The Living Theatres Art Trail. After completing my Seasons project a few years ago, the idea of taking my work outdoors had been quietly developing—though until now...
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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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Latest News About Lucy Sugden

Find my work in The Little Deli during Hitchin Art Trail

Find my work in The Little Deli during Hitchin Art Trail

by | Jul 1, 2023 |

Find my woven tapestries in the Art Trail as part of this years Hitchin Festival. You can find my  floral woven art in two venues during the Hitchin Art Trail which runs throughout July. Two tapestries are happily nestling among the tasty delights and treats sold at...

A Sixties Celebration “Flower Power” Parndon Mill

A Sixties Celebration “Flower Power” Parndon Mill

by | Jun 26, 2023 |

Delighted to be showing two new tapestries in this Eastern Region Textile Forum exhibition A Sixties Celebration "Flower Power" at Parndon Mill in Harlow.  This exhibition of original textile art is a celebration of the 1960's. It showcases a diverse range of creative...

Big Art Fair Hitchin

Big Art Fair Hitchin

by | Jun 23, 2023 |

All set up and looking forward to taking part in this years Herts Visual Arts Big Art Fair in Hitchin.  Find me and my work over the weekend in Hitchin Town Hall, June 24th and 25th 2023. Come and find out about my tapestries and woven art, I'll be demonstrating and...