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I have been painting and developing my personal visual language for nearly 30 years. My main pursuit was to free
myself from perspectival conventions and learn to paint the world as I knew and saw it, and to learn how to paint
using colour as a means of expression of feeling and sense of place. So I looked to East Asian paintings, ancient
Egyptian frescoes and decorative ornamentation for inspiration and to the modernist figurative painters that
emerged from the turn of the century. Matisse and Bonnard have always been very inspirational for me, and their
work continues to teach me to be more adventurous and explorative.
My subject matter hasn’t really changed throughout my painting life, and is predominately still life, interiors and
interiors with figures.
However, my painting techniques have changed a lot over the years and I have moved from working in egg
tempera on board during my college days and for a few years after, to acrylic on paper and board during the
nineteen nineties, to oil on canvas and board from the late nineteen nineties onwards.
Over the last 10 years my style has developed and matured, this has coincided with using oil paint, and now I feel I
can paint with the freedom and expression that I originally set out to achieve, in both subject matter, colour and the
textural qualities in the paint itself.
myself from perspectival conventions and learn to paint the world as I knew and saw it, and to learn how to paint
using colour as a means of expression of feeling and sense of place. So I looked to East Asian paintings, ancient
Egyptian frescoes and decorative ornamentation for inspiration and to the modernist figurative painters that
emerged from the turn of the century. Matisse and Bonnard have always been very inspirational for me, and their
work continues to teach me to be more adventurous and explorative.
My subject matter hasn’t really changed throughout my painting life, and is predominately still life, interiors and
interiors with figures.
However, my painting techniques have changed a lot over the years and I have moved from working in egg
tempera on board during my college days and for a few years after, to acrylic on paper and board during the
nineteen nineties, to oil on canvas and board from the late nineteen nineties onwards.
Over the last 10 years my style has developed and matured, this has coincided with using oil paint, and now I feel I
can paint with the freedom and expression that I originally set out to achieve, in both subject matter, colour and the
textural qualities in the paint itself.
Lucy Doyle