Lucie Bray
Painting Print
Painter Lucie Bray’s love of nature and the landscape of West Cornwall was at the heart of her artistic practice, and her distinctive outdoor studio – a white linen tent– was a regular sight on Porthmeor Beach in St Ives. Lucie believed in “keeping the whole painting ‘live’ until the closing seconds” and her paintings vividly reflect the ever-changing light and tides of the Cornish coast.
Lucie Bray was born in Truro in 1974 and grew up in West Cornwall. She studied at Falmouth School of Art, before completing a BA in Fine Art Painting at Wimbledon School of Art.
Selected mixed shows include Russell Galleries, London; with Paul Armitage at Rainyday Gallery, Penzance; Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, London; Summer Show, Collyer-Bristow Gallery, London; Various Exhibitions at Penwith Society of Arts, St Ives; Royal Institute of Oil Painters, Mall Galleries, London; Artist in Profile at Tregony Gallery; New English Art Club Annual Open Exhibition, London; 20th/21st Century British Art, Coach-House Gallery, Jersey & Manya Igel Fine Arts; Modern British Art, St. Helier Galleries, Jersey & Manya Igel Fine Arts; The Gallery Upstairs, Henley-in-Arden; An Exhibition of Cornish Landscapes Show with Luke Frost and Maggie Henshall, Rainyday Gallery; Galerie Pelar, New York, USA; White Gallery, Hove, Brighton.
I sit on the beach, the shifting wind and rain surround me. A few minutes later and the sun could break through proving how alive the Penwith coastline really is. Every given moment passes only once, colours are constantly evolving, but the relationship between the sea and the land is eternal. It is while directly witnessing this that I find my most honest and raw images. Each picture is finished onsite with no reworking in the studio. I almost exclusively use a white cotton bivouac for shelter, which cuts out the glare of the sun without tinting, whilst also minimising the effect of rain on my painting board.
