Lucy was born in 1956. She studied Fine art at Canterbury College of Art, specialising in painting. As a mature student, she studied History of Art at Birkbeck College, University of London.

Lucy has recently moved (2023) to Honeystreet near Pewsey, Wiltshire. She was drawn to this area for its ancient landscape with huge skies. An area full of Neolithic long barrows and megalithic sarsen stones as well as the much more recent chalk horses emblazoned across hillsides.