Lucy May Schofield is a Lincolnshire born artist, now working within the expansive landscape of rural Northumberland. A graduate of London College of Printing, she went on to study water-based woodcut (Mokuhanga) and book arts at MI-LAB in Japan. She is on the council of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers, where she is an elected associate member. She has exhibited widely, including at the Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, New York, at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo and RWA, Bristol.
Lucy’s work is held in numerous public and private collections, such as Tate Britain, The Ashmolean Museum and Yale Centre for British Art. She is a recipient of various commissions and residencies, most recently awarded a fellowship at the Scuola Internazionale di Grafica in Venice. In 2021 she received a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust grant to develop her practice and was the winner of the Flourish Award for excellence in 2020. She is a founding member of the Mokuhanga Sisters collective, an international group of nine artists across five countries who curate, collaborate and exhibit together globally.
Lucy May Schofield is an artist whose intuitive practice explores a somatic relationship to the earth within a palette of light and time. Charting the seasonal shifts through performative interplays with paper and expanded print; a meditation on materials and making as meditation. Living in a remote place has offered the experience to observe the ways in which time behaves, a chance to reflect on our place in the cosmos, inspiring a dialogue with the temporal and transient nature of our impermanence.