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SOMERSET OPEN STUDIOS  2025 

Lucy Willis - The Full Works: an exhibition of oils, watercolours, etchings, drawings and mixed media.

(next Open Studio event September 2027) 

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1972 self-portrait as a first year art student at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford.

Oil on Canvas 54 x 47 cm

The most recent lavishly illustrated Lucy Willis watercolour book.

Read more and order at Amazon.

Verified purchaser from the US says: "I love all of Lucy's books. Have all of them. It is learning from a Master. She has put a lot of energy and detail into her books. Have learned more from her about light and its effects than any watercolor teacher I ever had."

Lucy Willis' grandfather was the celebrated cartoonist H.M. Bateman.

To view the website showing examples of his famous "The Man Who..." series and numerous other wonderful drawings go to www.hmbateman.com

Prints of the cartoons are for sale.

Lucy Willis's portrait, Her Majesty's Pleasure, of prison inmates, won the 1992 BP Portrait Award at the National Portrait Gallery, London.

It was shown there first and has since been exhibited in 'Treasures from the National Portrait Gallery' touring Japan in 1995, The Royal West of Englad Academy, Bristol in 2004, The Atkinson Gallery, Street, Somerset in 2008. It was owned by actor John Cleese until 2003.