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.
Working in collaboration with expansive landscapes and dark skies, she finds inspiration in seasonal shifts and ancient calendars, embodied knowledge and interconnectedness. Committed to using natural materials and traditional craft processes within her practice allow her to explore our intimate relationship to nature through a dialogue of touch.
Bio
Lucy May Schofield (1979) is a British artist. She studied Printmaking and Book Arts at London College of Printing, and is now based in rural Northumberland where she continues to practice water-based woodcut. She regularly travels to Japan to study under master craftspeople using traditional and contemporary mokuhanga techniques. Her prints have been presented at The Kentler International Drawing Space in New York, The London Original Print Fair, and The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Her work is held in private and public collections including Tate Britain and Yale Centre for British Art. In 2021 she was awarded a Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust award to develop her sustainable printmaking practice. Lucy was awarded the Flourish Award for excellence in print-making by WYPW in 2020. In 2022 she was elected as an associate member of the Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers and the selected print fellow resident at the Scuola Internazionale Grafica in Venice in 2025. She is the recipient of various residencies in Japan, Iceland, California, Quebec, Florence, Scotland and Wales and notable commissions from Diageo for site-responsive expanded print works for the interior of the Port Ellen distillery on the island of Islay. She is a founding member of the Mokuhanga Sisters collective, an international group of nine artists across five countries who together, curate, collaborate and exhibit to promote the art of mokuhanga.