Lydia Warren

Lydia lives and works on Barra in the Outer Hebrides. After growing up in Devon she worked in restoration before moving to London and working as a specialist decorator, she draws on a background of craft, mixing process and a fascination of material with a highly emotive response to her surrounding landscapes. There is a juxtaposition of fast and slow, thoughtful and responsive, dreaming and drama to her lime-wash panels.
“Inspiration comes from a sense of deep time and geological process, seeing the forces and power at work in this rocky landscape. I often feel profoundly effected by this, it is both a soothing greater power and also deeply unsettling dramatic energy at play.”
The physicality and limitations of Lime, which she discovered in decorating, have been the motivation to making artworks. There is a link to both ancient art and landscape.
“Matter and material are very important to me, it is a layer between ourselves and the world we live in. It has the power to seal us from certain elements of earth and connect and reassure us in our environment and sense of place.”