Lorna Graves (1947–2006) was a British artist who worked across a diverse range of media including painting, drawing, printmaking and sculpture.
[2] An important early commission was to create studies of the Ruthwell Cross, an 8th Century Anglo-Saxon monument just north of the Scottish border in Dumfries and Galloway.
[5] She continued to produce work, including important commissions such as a crucifix for Carver Memorial Church in Windermere and a collaboration with Welfare State International, for which she created a hand-painted coffin.
[1] Graves used simple forms in her work to represent archetypes such as Cumbrian woman, beast, fish, boat, landscape, angel, standing stones.
[4] In burning, the smoke and remnants of these objects leave behind marks and traces on the body of the sculpture and give an aged and bone-like appearance.