Lucy Harwood

Eva Lucy Harwood (1 January 1893 – 24 October 1972) was a British artist known for her landscape paintings of East Anglia and Suffolk.

[1] Harwood was born at Belstead near Ipswich and moved with her family to East Bergholt while still a young child.

[2] A botched medical operation left Harwood partially paralysed on her right-hand side and ended her ambition to be a professional pianist.

[2] In 1937 she studied at the East Anglian School of Printing and Drawing in Dedham run by Cedric Morris.

[2] Working with her left hand only, Harwood created still-life and landscape paintings of Suffolk, in particular of the area around her home at Upper Layham but also of other parts of Britain and abroad.