Lilly Blue

A life time of creating, art making, storytelling. It all started from a young age. Here Lilly was about 5 years old.

1. A brief story about you

Once upon a time there was a small girl child called Lilly who lived in a tree house at the edge of the sky. She loved making things out of sticks and string and believed in fairies and the thunder beings of flooded streets. When she was not wandering the world in search of treasure you could find her in the arms of a liquid amber with her dreams in the breeze. Over the years her adventures took her across oceans to the Islands and mountains of the earth. Determined to grow up only enough to run away she continues to write poetry in the sand, knowing that everything beautiful is washed away to nothing, and that from nothing everything beautiful grows. Lilly has become a storyteller, unchartered mapmaker and concocter of poetic days, sunlit and shadow filled. She now lives and paints with a small girl child in a tree house at the edge of the sky.

2. Your first/earliest visual memory?

Watching dust floating in early morning light, mesmerized.

3. What or who inspired you as a kid?

As a child I drew and wrote stories and directed endless theatrical dramas with my siblings, cousins and friends. What I remember of those times was that creating was like breathing; there was nothing unusual or elevated about it. There was no need to wait for inspiration; just the act of waking up in the morning to a new day was enough.

4. An early poignant art making moment/experience?

Something to do with mud and sticks in the backyard

5. How would you describe your style and approach to your work

I work very playfully and intuitively. I don’t sketch before creating images and I am never quite sure where a drawing is going until I am finished. I have collected a menagerie of personal symbols, most of which I have been drawing since I was a young child. I am interested in what is hidden underneath all the things I think I know. I aspire to paint like a child. I will settle for creating work that says something about being human, connected, and endlessly grateful for this extraordinary life.

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