Lucy Casson

As I child I always made things, I loved picking things up and trying to make something out of something and I think its always been in me, so there wasn’t really a moment of realisation it evolved from a very young age.

My parents were both ceramicists and so I grew up with people making things all around me and also I wasn’t very academically bright so I found school at times to be difficult, but people always liked what I made and so there was a great encouragement to pursue that.

My main motivation at present is observations of people animals and scenarios around me and how they react with each other and how you can manipulate and recreate them.

It seems to happen that even when I don’t set out to do something humorous they turn out that way, but I suppose that when I see those scenes in the street and there’s a humorous side that’s the kind of thing I pick up on.

Your personal take on life is so important, anyone can teach you art techniques and lots of things about art, but there’s something in you that wants to do your thing and to understand the world in your way and to interpret that and to communicate with other people which is a big part of it because although it’s personal you are communicating to other people which in turn triggers things for them.

Art for me is about communication but also a personal need, I find I’m driven to do it and I feel that if I couldn’t do it part of me would be missing.

You have to be very dedicated and I think you know that it isn’t enough to just learn the techniques you have to take that knowledge and do your thing with it.

I feel that role models are things that you see like something in a museum, another artist’s work, even something that is industrially made, these can all be triggers. At different times you will find that different artists work can be inspiring. You can have a notebook of ideas but you have to have the heart to make those ideas work. You also need the time and the drive to want to do it because otherwise the ideas just stay as ideas. So one of the hardest things to do is combine those things and create a result.