Lucy Manley

Fine Art

Lucy Manley's favourite subject is the traditional landscape, quite often with teams of horses, sugar shacks and old buildings found in and around her area and afar, as well as the wilderness scenes of the north country. She travels extensively around Ontario, and sometimes Quebec, to find special locations to paint. Her work is rendered in a loose painterly style in oils. Watercolour is another medium she enjoys. Painting 'on location' is the mainstay of her inspiration. She enjoys nature and tries to get outdoors painting in all the seasons. This 'on location' urge has taken her across Canada, west to the Rockies and east to Newfoundland; south to the USA and Mexico. Trips abroad have taken her to Russia, Ukraine, France and Italy.

Since 2004, she enjoys a large studio detached from her home that is open to the public by appointment and during various Open Studio Shows. Away from home, her Jeep serves her purpose perfectly as a portable studio.

Lucy has been an active member of the East Central Ontario Art Association (ECOAA) since 1979. Her work has been accepted in the Association's Annual Juried Shows where she has won several awards including Best in Show, Juror's Choice and Honourable Mentions. Her work has also been accepted at the Annual Juried shows of the Visual Arts Centre in Bowmanville, Ontario, where she has received the Award of Excellence and Award of Merit. Since 1995 she has been teaching art for Loyalist College in Belleville, Ontario, for the Continuing Education Classes: doing summer workshops at Bridgewater Retreat in Actinolite and at Amherst Island; as well as teaching classes at the Warkworth site during the Fall, Winter and Spring sessions. She has also been teaching an Oil Painting class for the Visual Arts Centre in Bowmanville. In 2007 she started teaching at the Kawartha Artists Studio & Gallery in Peterborough and in 2008 these classes were moved to her home studio-gallery. In addition to these she leads various one-day and weekend workshops whenever she is invited by art groups in various parts of Ontario.

She was selected as Artist-in-Residence for 2 years, during the summers of 1995-6, at Bon Echo Provincial Park. In 2004 two pieces of her work were selected by the City of Peterborough to be featured in their 2005 Calendar. In 2005, 2007,2009 she was invited as instructor to head a painting workshop to Southern France based in Limoux for Le Monastere Artists Adventures, where her group enjoyed painting 'en plein air'.