Lucy Harwood

British 1893 – 1972

Eva Lucy Harwood, known as Lucy Harwood was a Suffolk artist born in 1893. Harwood attended the Slade School of Fine Art prior to the First World War, and then the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing at Dedham, Essex, when it was opened by Cedric Morris in 1937. In 1939, unmarried, living at her home, Ackworth House, East Bergholt, Suffolk with her incapacitated father, and after his death the following year, she moved to be near the East Anglian School of Painting on its relocated to Benton End, Hadleigh, Suffolk. Owing to a botched operation when she was young, Lucy was left partially paralysed on her right side, and her pictures, painted with her left hand, are spontaneous and colourful still life and landscapes of, and around, her house at Upper Layham, near Hadleigh. She exhibited two works at the Ipswich Art Club in 1941, At Flatford and Old Barn near Hadleigh, and in 1942, Beehive and Trees. She was also a member and exhibitor at the Norfolk & Norwich Art Cicle 1946-1948 from Upper Layham. Harwood died at Kiln House, Upper Layham, Hadleigh, Suffolk in 1972. The first solo exhibition dedicated to Harwood was at The Minories, Colchester in 1975 and she had further shows at Sally Hunter Fine Art.