Oil and Acrylic on Board
40.6 x 51 cms
2025
 
The work is fitted with mirror plates but can also be hung on screws as it is cradled.
 
This piece was featured in the Wakelin Award 2025: Lucia Jones exhibition at the Glynn Vivian Art Gallery. Following her selection as the award winner, the gallery invited Jones to present a solo exhibition of new and recent works, alongside three pieces officially acquired for their permanent collection.
 
"My works involve metaphorical and visual boundaries in painted space, often playing with translucency and solidity. For this work I created a digital collage of my sources and drew/cut vinyl stencils in order to apply layers and sections of the composition in isolation. I treated the shadows uniformly in this work, light-absorbing black paint forms a lattice across the surface, creating a subtle fluctuation between fore and background, never quite static. The leaves and floor were applied in two passes, varying the dilution of oil paint with glaze medium to create drips and stronger contrasts, while adjusting pigment to better capture light. The figure was painted within its own stencil, emphasizing the protrusion of legs from the hedge. The painting reflects on the chaos of dating, I initially imagined a woman being dragged backwards through a hedge or sinking in like the Homer Simpson meme. I see it as a joyful dive in, inspired by meeting my husband, but the woman could also seen as stuck in or sucked into a strange and void-like hedgerow." - Jones, 2026