Lydia lives and works on Barra in the Outer Hebrides. After growing up in Devon she worked in restoration before moving to London and working as a specialist decorator. She draws on a background of craft, mixing process and a fascination of material with a highly emotive response to her surrounding landscapes. There is a juxtaposition of fast and slow, thoughtful and responsive, dreaming and drama to her paintings.

“Inspiration comes from a sense of deep time and geological process, seeing the forces and power at work in this rocky landscape. I often feel profoundly effected by this, it is both a soothing greater power and also deeply unsettling dramatic energy at play.”