Lucy Cade – One Big Dark Room

Inspired by the character of Lydia in the Beetlejuice movie, this painting generates a nostalgic gothic self-titled ‘bleu noir’, evoking melodrama, Victoriana and the huge influence of Gothic fiction from the 19th century on film noir and the advent of horror. The paint describing the face and hat disintegrates into a bigger void of darkness expressing the inadequacy of the individual in the face of the sublime vastness of nature.