My favourite work of art ... is a big, vibrant oil painting of a vase of flowers, by an Irish artist called Lucy Doyle and I'm lucky’.


My Secret Life: Marian Keyes, author.
The Independent
December, 2009.

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‘…thirty-eight pairs of shoes, a Lucy Doyle painting and two hundred euro in the bank.’


Marian Keyes.  
The Brightest Star in the Sky
Penguin Books 2009

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‘Take an established painter, such as Lucy Doyle, who makes cheerful, decorative works with a great feeling for pattern and colour. Hard to
image why she was turned down [RHA Annual Exhibition], if not purely for reasons of space’.


Aidan Dunne.  
The Irish Times
18th May, 2008.

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‘When I saw the movie Tara Road for the very first time I was struck by the paintings on the wall in the big restaurant scene.  They were vibrant
and richly coloured and just seemed to invite you in.  They were just exactly right for the restaurant so I asked where they had come from.  Then I
heard about Lucy Doyle and saw more of her strong attractive work.  I will always be proud to have come across her paintings first in a film of my
own book and will look out for her exhibitions and shows’.


Maeve Binchy
2007

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‘I think Lucy is an amazing artist.  Her paintings have a hypnotic yet invigorating quality. You look at them and you can’t help but smile, they are
like comfort food for the eyes.  They’re paintings that make your heart and soul sing. But they are also technically accomplished and ambitious
pieces.  They echo some of the great artists of the post, artists like Bonnard and Vuillard, Matisse, and the Dutch still life masters.  The vibrant
south sea colours of Gauguin, the golden yellow of van Gogh’s sun flowers.  And like all great pieces of art, Lucy’s paintings are timeless and
universal’.


Sarah Webb
Opening speech to Lucy’s 2005 Solo Exhibition.

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