Lucy Poett

Lucy Poett was born in Scotland in Edinburgh, and went to schools in both Scotland and England where she acquired a lasting interest in both pictures and painting. On leaving school, she studied briefly at the Heatherly School of Art in London.

She had to interrupt her studies there to return to Scotland as her grandfather died, and she had to help her mother with the family farm. Living near Dundee, she was able to study sculpture under the late Scott Sutherland RSA at the Dundee College of Art. She then worked in London from a studio in Chelsea doing Portrait Heads in Bronze, and at the same time, she started doing animal drawings in pencil. She had two sucessful exhibitions of drawings at the Malcolm Innes Gallery in London.

She has developed her artistic talent and has taught herself to paint in oils, and now does portraits that she exhibits regularly at The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibitions in London. Although her pictures tend to be of people - she is especially fascinated by faces in the desert, India, and the Middle East. Her sculpture is more varied and includes bird and animal sculpture. She accepts commissions for Portrait heads in Bronze which are regularly exhibited in London and Scotland.

She is an Associate of The Royal Society of British Sculptors and a member of the Society of Women Artists.

She exhibits regularly at the Royal Scottish Academy, and frequently had pictures and small sculptures exhibited in galleries in Scotland and London. She has just completed a life size memorial bronze of Sandy Irvine Robertson which has been installed outside the Malmaison Hotel on The Shore in Leith (Edinburgh).

She has bronzes currently on exhibition in, London, and Edinburgh. She has recently exported a number of pictures to New York.