Lucy Poet

Lucy Poet was born in Scotland in Edinburgh & went to schools in both Scotland & England where she acquired a lasting interest in both pictures & painting.

On leaving school she studied briefly at the Heatherly School of Art in London. Living near Dundee, she was able to study sculpture under the late Scott Sutherland RSA at the Dundee College of Art. She then worked in London from a studio in Chelsea doing Portrait Heads in Bronze, & at the same time she started doing animal drawings in pencil. She had two successful exhibitions of drawings at the Malcolm Innes Gallery in London.

Poet exhibits regularly at The Royal Society of Portrait Painters Exhibitions in London. Her sculpture is more varied & includes bird & animal sculpture. She accepts commissions for Portrait heads in Bronze which are regularly exhibited in London & Scotland.

Lucy Poet is an Associate of The Royal Society of British Sculptors & a member of the Society of Women Artists. She has completed a life size memorial bronze of Sandy Irvine Robertson which has been installed outside the Malmaison Hotel on The Shore in Leith (Edinburgh).