Lucy Murray Willis is a photographer, painter and researcher currently living in Brooklyn, NY, originally from Sussex, UK. She specializes in landscapes and portraits, driven by a fascination with geology, nature and human stories within it. Her work has been published in Womanly Magazine, Financial Times along with other publications. She is currently building out bodies of work whilst exploring the US.
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Land I Once Knew, is a collection of paintings, drawings and photographs of American landscapes from my past and present memory. These landscapes are from memories of my youth in a northern Californian gold mining town called Goodyears Bar, to recent trips revisiting my grandmother’s hometown in northern Maine and all of the states travelled in between.
The Last Garden, almost two years ago, in February 2021, my father passed away from covid. The Last Garden is a photo essay documenting the final blooms in his garden after he was gone. The garden had always been, especially in retirement, his most loved place to be and to share with others. He would carefully keep the seeds from his beloved plants and give them on special occasions and life changing events to his friends and family. After death, this tradition continued through the gift of these blossoms, marking the monumental loss of him. Through his gifts of seeds, his garden continues in the backyards and pots of the ones he held close.
Elements Passing, is a collection of large-scale work that captures the beauty and transience of landscapes and movement. I use close-up crops of nature to freeze fleeting moments in time and create meditative abstracts from them. This project is a continuation of my earlier work, "The Last Garden," and represents a deeper exploration of the themes of loss, memory, and the healing power of nature.
The Last Garden, almost two years ago, in February 2021, my father passed away from covid. The Last Garden is a photo essay documenting the final blooms in his garden after he was gone. The garden had always been, especially in retirement, his most loved place to be and to share with others. He would carefully keep the seeds from his beloved plants and give them on special occasions and life changing events to his friends and family. After death, this tradition continued through the gift of these blossoms, marking the monumental loss of him. Through his gifts of seeds, his garden continues in the backyards and pots of the ones he held close.
Elements Passing, is a collection of large-scale work that captures the beauty and transience of landscapes and movement. I use close-up crops of nature to freeze fleeting moments in time and create meditative abstracts from them. This project is a continuation of my earlier work, "The Last Garden," and represents a deeper exploration of the themes of loss, memory, and the healing power of nature.