Lucy Sugden

About

I am a woven tapestry artist from Letchworth Garden City with a Constructed Textiles degree specialising in tapestry weaving. After spending most of my career developing and delivering art education to the community, schools, and colleges I fully returned to tapestry weaving in 2017.A member of The British Tapestry Group, The Wynd Gallery in Letchworth and various textiles associations I regularly exhibit locally and nationally, along with delivering talks, workshops, and courses.My woven work explores a fascination of light play with a love of wildlife and beneficial flowers found in local habitats and I am often inspired by my garden and walks around the fields of Letchworth. I creates flowers on circle looms before embedding them in the tapestry backgrounds as they are woven.It is important to me to maintain a sustainable art practice by recycling and upcycling fibres where possible which has become an integral part of how I work and often has a direct effect on design and size of a piece, along with an exploration of combining fibres. I source British wools and recycled yarns wherever possible for students to weave with when attending my workshops.