Lucy Spanyol is a painter whose work explores fragile and nebulous visual narratives that offer an often darkly humorous vision of our world.
Figuration and abstraction exist in the same arena: forms and figures arrive in these paintings and drawings through a combination of the process of making and the memory of personal and collective events. For Lucy, the process of making images is fundamentally an arena in which to explore unknown inner worlds and a place to push at the boundaries of both materials and visual storytelling.

Lucy has an MA from Chelsea School of Art, and has been awarded the Schmincke prize in 2024 and the Daler Rowney prize in 2025 at the Royal Watercolour Society Open. She has her work in collections at Soho House Balham, Steingold Contemporary and the Art Historian Kate Bryan.

Recent exhibitions include “A Room Of Her Own” at Irving Contemporary Oxford, “Unconquerable Women”, Texas, “Works on Paper 5” at the Blue Shop Gallery, Brixton and selection for the exhibition “If Heaven Falls” at the Lido Stores Gallery in Margate. Last year her work featured alongside Katy Binks in “The Saying and the Said” at Studio 73 Gallery in Brixton.