Lucy Lee & Edward Campbell

Lucy Lee and Edward Campbell are the founders of The Old Mill, an art studio and occasional exhibition space based in Palnackie on the Solway coastline in the heart of Dumfries and Galloway, which invites visitors to explore the connection between creativity, spirit and our natural environment.

Lucy is a mixed media artist, currently working with materials found in the landscape of her garden and surrounding area. She is working on building techniques and crafts that can be used as tools for connecting to plants, and our inherent human creative impulse. Working as a gardener and forager has encouraged Lucy to enquire about the nature of art making and in particular art materials and now uses them almost entirely in her own creative practice.

Edward, after working with Acrylics, Oils and Watercolours throughout his career, began to intensively developing his technique of working with plants to create art materials during the first lockdown in spring 2020. Through experimentation, and learning from a variety of sources, Edward has gained a rich and intuitive style of working with the plants, and over the past couple of years, has become the main medium with which he creates.

Their workshops are focussed on the making of creative materials such as paints and inks, and the historical and cultural context of creative materials.