B. Lucy Stevens is an internationally recognized mixed-media artist living in Key West, Florida. Lucy paints intuitively, and her work is vibrant and expressionistic—daily life imagined in a brilliant cacophony of color and pattern. She is inspired by primitive art and her far-flung travels to Indonesia and South America and France, where for a year she lived on a flower farm.

Lucy leads art workshops for children in underserved communities and for adults with developmental disabilities, and she is hugely inspired by their art as well.

Her work has been featured in galleries and shows throughout the U.S. as well as in France and the U.K. She is represented by Coastal Contemporary Gallery, Newport, RI; Gallery Orange, New Orleans, LA; Bennett Galleries, Nashville, KY;Dryden Gallery, Providence, RI, and Lucky Street Gallery, Key West, FL.

I paint what I see, what I remember, and what I imagine and it all gets mixed together, like it is in my mind. 
I crave solitude but fear isolation
There are times I cannot stop painting — I make a cup of tea and forget to drink it – I forget I have to pee                                  I go to the supermarket with paint on my face and in my hair
tell my stories and other people’s and I am grateful to those who have shared with me bits and pieces of their lives Everything that is true is beautiful I read this the other day I
’m grateful to all the artists whose work has touched me and who I have learned from
I am grateful that I have a way to express myself
Also that I’m a painter and not a dancer so I can do this until I’m 100
I have lived in the south of France on a flower farm, where there was a grapefruit tree outside my window, and on a muddy river in Indonesia and in New York City                                                                                                                         
My childhood was spent in the woods of New Hampshire where there was never enough sun
I always drew and made things, but it never occurred to me to go to art school
I liked to write, too—I’ve always been curious to know people’s stories—so I became a newspaper reporter, and later, a writing teacher so I could help others tell their stories
I was drawing all along, though, in my reporter’s notebooks and on the backs of student papersand finally the need to do this all the time grabbed me and wouldn’t let me go and I’m still dancing in its crazy embrace.

 

Visit the website of the artist: blucystevens.com