Lucy Bauld

Midnight in Winter

120 × 150 cm

Acrylic on Canvas

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About the work

"Midnight in Winter" Size: 153 x 123cm, includes frame.

This is winter. Not the cute, cosy kind with fairy lights and hot chocolate (though I love that too). This is the other kind of winter, the one where you feel like you're moving through fog and you genuinely can't tell if the heaviness is just you, or if everyone is feeling it and just... not saying so.

Midnight in Winter is about those harder seasons of life. The ones where you're carrying things that are heavy, that don't have easy answers, that feel turbulent and unsettling and very, very real.

But here's what I kept coming back to as I was painting it, there is so much beauty in that place too. The light doesn't disappear. It just gets harder to see from where you're standing. The storm always ends. And there is something forged in you during the hard seasons that nothing else could have built.

This painting holds all of that. The turbulence AND the light breaking through.

About the artist

Lucy Bauld is an abstract artist based in Launceston, Tasmania. Working primarily with acrylics on canvas, Lucy’s paintings explore dynamic movement and texture, influenced by her background in maritime engineering. Her studies in hydrodynamics play a significant role in the fluidity and energy that defines her work, as she captures the powerful forces of nature through abstract forms. As an artist, Lucy is driven by a desire to bring the essence of movement and colour to life on the canvas, creating works that invite the viewer to experience a sense of motion inspired from wild landscapes. Lucy creates abstract works that explore the dynamic relationships between movement, texture, and colour. Her medium of choice is acrylic paints on canvas, where she uses bold, bright colours and energetic strokes to convey a sense of movement through my paintings. Lucy builds up paint to create texture, which shifts shadows throughout the day as the light changes, creating a constantly evolving experience for the viewer. Drawing from her background as a maritime engineer, Lucy's understanding of hydrodynamics and weather systems deeply informs the fluidity and motion in her work. The ever-changing landscapes of Tasmania, particularly the mountainous terrain and patterns Lucy finds when bushwalking, are also a significant source of inspiration for her. These are reflected in the layers of Lucy's paintings, as she builds up many layers of paint to create a sense of motion and flow that invites the eye to move across the canvas. Lucy's intention is simple: I want my art to bring colour, vibrancy, and excitement into people’s homes. Through her work, she hopes to share a little piece of the energy and beauty that she sees in the world.

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