We recently had the chance to connect with Lucy Pike and have shared our conversation below.
Hi Lucy, thank you so much for joining us today. We’re thrilled to learn more about your journey, values and what you are currently working on. Let’s start with an ice breaker: What is something outside of work that is bringing you joy lately?
My friends! 2025 has been so tumultuous in a lot of ways, and leaning into community has absolutely saved me. Whether it’s sending midnight jokes or spending entire days together, nourishing those relationships brings me deep joy. Find your people—there’s nothing like it.
Can you briefly introduce yourself and share what makes you or your brand unique?
My name is Lucy, and I’m an abstract artist currently working mainly in mixed media. After years of exploring the raw aspects of ink, I’ve been combining ink with paint and mediums and delving back into texture and substance. It feels important to me to find expression in those elements at a time when so much of our daily existence is lived digitally.
Appreciate your sharing that. Let’s talk about your life, growing up and some of topics and learnings around that. What part of you has served its purpose and must now be released?
As a middle aged woman (which sometimes still sounds crazy to say!), I am continually shedding what no longer serves a purpose for me—it’s definitely a process. Letting go of a need for perfection was a big one…just realizing and accepting that life’s messes are actually what make it pretty beautiful.
Women are trained to think of others before themselves from almost their first breath, and I’m still constantly learning better how to let go of others’ expectations and focus on what is right for me as an artist, mother, and woman. It’s your life—live it!
What did suffering teach you that success never could?
Suffering has definitely been a huge teacher in my life. I am reminded that we are all connected, that suffering touches every human, and that we have so little control over what the world gives us sometimes. Emotion and intuition are a big part of what I paint, so suffering and grief are occasionally going to show up in my colors and marks. And to me, those kinds of honest emotions give a work authenticity. It’s what I’m attracted to in what I love myself, and I try not to back away from that in my own work.
Sure, so let’s go deeper into your values and how you think. Is the public version of you the real you?
Ooh, this is tricky for me to answer. On one hand—yes! Authenticity and integrity are hugely important to me; I’m never going to pretend to be someone I’m not. So what you see is what you get, all the time. But I am fairly private and hold a lot of thoughts and feelings in my own head, so there is definitely a big part of me that isn’t public at all.
Okay, so let’s keep going with one more question that means a lot to us: When do you feel most at peace?
When I’m deep in the throes of painting. Even if it’s terrible, even if the vibes aren’t going the way I wish—the peace of bringing something to life that wasn’t there before is pretty unmatched. Creating something visible with your own two hands, making a mark on the world with your singular voice—it’s pretty powerful.
Contact Info:
- Website: https://www.lucypikeart.com/
- Instagram: @lucypikeart
Image Credits
Personal photos by me, no credits needed
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