About Us
Old Mill Arts was founded by artists and foragers Lucy Lee and Edward C Campbell. The aim of its founders is to create spaces for inquiry into the connection between creativity, spirit and our natural environment. Through Old Mill Arts, Edward and Lucy regularly host creative workshops with the emphasis on making creative materials such as paints, inks, dyes, clays and pigments, alongside the historical and cultural context of creative materials.
Photo by Kim Ayres
Photo by Kim Ayres
A bit about Lucy…
Lucy Lee 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 inquire about the nature of art making and in particular art materials and now uses them almost entirely in her own creative practice.
A bit about Edward…
After working with acrylics, oils and watercolours throughout his career, Edward began to intensively developing his technique of working with plants and pigment rich stones to create art materials during the first lock-down in spring 2020. Through experimentation, and learning from a variety of sources, Edward has gained a rich and intuitive style of working with his hand made art materials, and over the past couple of years, has become the main medium with which is creates.
