{"id":103775,"date":"2025-10-05T08:06:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-05T08:06:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/103775\/"},"modified":"2025-10-05T08:06:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T08:06:09","slug":"my-favourite-room-wicklow-based-artist-lucy-doyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/103775\/","title":{"rendered":"My favourite room: Wicklow-based artist Lucy Doyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nLucy Doyle\u2019s paintings are vibrant, often containing an unlikely mix of objects and people, yet they work. Her home in the Wicklow hills has similar qualities \u2013 lots of colour and interesting pieces, and the overall effect is one of warmth and welcome\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Artist Lucy Doyle in the sunroom of her bungalow in Co Wicklow. The sunroom, which runs the length of the house, was added eight years after she and her husband Nick Gray built the house in 1991. Photo: Tony Gavin\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/G LUCY DOYLE ROOM 1.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Artist Lucy Doyle in the sunroom of her bungalow in Co Wicklow. The sunroom, which runs the length of the house, was added eight years after she and her husband Nick Gray built the house in 1991. Photo: Tony Gavin<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Artists are drawn to certain subjects, and flowers \u2013 with their striking petal formations, their different textures and bright colours \u2013 are a constant source of inspiration. It\u2019s certainly the case for Wicklow artist Lucy Doyle. Monet had his lilies, Van Gogh his sunflowers and Lucy has her dahlias.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Part of the large garden attached to her home, which her husband Nick Gray tends, is given over to flowers which are specially for cutting and using in her still lifes. She has lupins and phlox, daisies and poppies, tulips and roses, and she uses them all in her work. But dahlias are particular favourites and at this time of year she has an abundance of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lucy Doyle\u2019s paintings are vibrant, often containing an unlikely mix of objects and people, yet they work. Her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":103776,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,4746,4850,22482],"class_list":{"0":"post-103775","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-life-magazine","13":"tag-mary-osullivan","14":"tag-trinity-college-dublin"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103775\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/103776"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}