EXHIBITIONS

4 October 2025, Communities of The Corridor, Group Mosaic, Santa Ana Art Walk, California

August 2025, Arts in California Parks, Guest Artist, Coastal Corridor Alliance, Costa Mesa, California

9th March to 19th April 2024, Art That's Small at City Hall, Group Show, Laguna Beach, California

19th December 2023 (to 9th February) extended to 6th April 2024, 36 Paper Pictures: Washi, Scraps, and Souvenirs, Solo Show, Central Library Gallery, Newport Beach, California

In private collections and The Regents' of The University of California

BIOGRAPHY

Lucie Galvin is a multidisciplinary American artist based in Southern California. She studied art history at The University of Michigan, education at St. Mary's College California, garden design at The English Gardening School, London, and craftsman gardening with The National Trust for Scotland. She teaches and practices sustainable gardening and crafts.

STATEMENT

Here Lucie Galvin explores her story thru paper pictures. With planes of color, pattern, texture, and simplified form she emphasizes structure and physicality. The result are works deliberately flattened, decorative, vibrant, and fun. As boats, gardens, and home surround Lucie in daily life so they recur as motifs subtly referencing the heritage and impact of human presence within the natural environment. As seeds and cellulose appear in the pictures' material they remind of our dependence on Nature.

MATERIALS

Paper plant materials include: Bamboo, banana, camellia, coffee, corn, cotton, cucumber, daphne, ficus, flax, gampi, hemp/jute, indigos, mango, mitsumata, mulberry, nettle, oak, onion, papyrus, pear, pine, rice, sandalwood, snake plant, and anonymous hard and softwoods in upcycled calendars, candy wrappers, cardboards, card stock, cellophane, construction paper, cup sleeves, flyers, gift wrap, greeting cards, guides, kraft, leaf bags, maps, menus, parchment, pastry boxes, placemats, playbills, receipts, ribbons, shopping bags, tickets, to-go containers, and vellum. Most cultivated or wild-found, harvested, stripped, bashed, pulped, mixed, repeatedly dried, and then crinkled, dyed, embossed, foiled, gilt, glittered, hand-painted, lacquered, laminated, marbled, printed, stamped, sun-washed, or left natural by many, many other artists around the world. Some gathered, torn, soaked, bashed, blended, and dried by Lucie. All gleaming with warmth and texture IRL.

To preserve their papers' original character these pictures are unvarnished nor treated with other topical coats or fixatives. Offcuts are saved for future pictures or composted to nurture Nature. Behind the scenes butcher paper supports, glassine paper separates, and rice and other glues bind.

ARTICLE

Cultivating Goodness - The Talent of Lucie Galvin, Tableau Magazine, March/April 2021

NON-FUNGIBLE TOKENS

Lucie Galvin does not participate or collaborate in the creation of NFTs. Any NFT of her work, derivative of her work, or said to be by her is inauthentic, unauthorized, and illegal.