Lucy Doyle
‘Take an established painter, such as Lucy Doyle, who makes cheerful, decorative works with a great feeling for pattern and colour. Hard to image why she was turned down, if not purely for reasons of space’.
Aidan Dunne. Review of the Bad Art Unselected Show. The Irish Times, 18th May 2008
‘-thirty-eight pairs of shoes, a Lucy Doyle painting and two hundred euro in the bank’.
Marian Keyes. The Brightest Star in the Sky. (Penguin:2009, p472)
‘When I saw the movie Tara Road for the very first time I was struck by the paintings on the wall in the big restaurant scene. They were vibrant and richly coloured and just seemed to invite you in. They were just exactly right for the restaurant so I asked where they had come from. Then I heard about Lucy Doyle and saw more of her strong attractive work. I will always be proud to have come across her paintings first in a film of my own book and will look out for her exhibitions and shows’.
Maeve Binchy, 2007.
‘I think Lucy is an amazing artist. Her paintings have a hypnotic yet invigorating quality. You look at them and you can’t help but smile, they are like comfort food for the eyes. They’re paintings that make your heart and soul sing. But they are also technically accomplished and ambitious pieces. They echo some of the great artists of the post, artists like Bonnard and Vuillard, Matisse, and the Dutch still life masters. The vibrant south sea colours of Gauguin, the golden yellow of van Gogh’s sun flowers. And like all great pieces of art, Lucy’s paintings are timeless and universal’.
Sarah Webb’s opening speech to Lucy’s 2005 exhibition.
