ABOUT
Lucy Pass is a self-taught visual artist currently living and working in Cheltenham, UK.
"The aim of my work is to capture the invisible things within us, using a mix of representational and abstract elements. Half formed faces and figures hang in empty spaces, unclear whether falling apart or piecing themselves together, surrounded by a language of abstract marks and shapes in an attempt to give a physical shape to the endless internal soup of human emotion."
"Calling herself an ‘anti-portrait-artist’, Pass creates pictures of strangers with no knowledge of their respective interiorities; instead painting in her own visual understanding of the soul that lies beneath the face. These heads are often defaced by energetic marks, or Medusa-like: covered with coils of undulating brush-strokes; some of them show features blanked out and replaced with illustrative shapes, whereas others show fragmented features alone in a pastel-void. All of them are surreal. All of them are beautiful. The constant visual conversation is an energetic balance between absence and addition. Lack is as important as substance, in her work, allowing for you, the viewer, to ‘fill in the blanks’ of what you cannot see."