Lucy Robb is a painter.

She believes in the value of a quiet approach to life and her paintings increasingly revolve around considering the simplicity of small moments out of which our lives are composed but that we often overlook.

Robb is fascinated by the connection between paint and poetry, how they both convey something of human experience that isn’t necessarily tangible but is instantly recognisable. They are both a gathering up of the inner and outer world; a kind of necessary abstraction that allows feeling to come through. The fluidity of paint feels natural when trying to evoke subjective experience and the sort of edgeless quality of lyric time which Emily Dickinson refers to as ‘without the date, like consciousness or immortality’.

Her paintings are evocations rather than descriptions, often on a smaller scale that she can hold in her hands whilst painting.

She studied Art History and English Literature at the University of St Andrews before graduating from an MA in Fine Art at City and Guilds of London Art School in 2023. Her work has been shown in London and Oxford.