Lucy Newman - Hand Embroidery

Portrait of Lucy Newman, a UK hand embroidery artist creating contemporary embroidery art and thread paintings.

Hand embroidery artist creating contemporary embroidery art

Lucy Newman is a UK hand embroidery artist creating thread paintings, custom hand embroidery commissions and contemporary textile artworks. Her practice explores future ecologies, digital distortion, bodily disorientation and the physical force of stitch.

Working through the slow, exacting process of hand embroidery, Lucy translates unstable images into dense, tactile surfaces. Her work sits between painting and textile art, using stitch to examine how bodies, landscapes and technologies can become glitched, fragmented or transformed.

Contemporary hand embroidered botanical artwork by Lucy Newman, using thread painting to explore distorted natural forms and future ecologies.
Hand embroidered floral thread painting by Lucy Newman, showing a digitally distorted botanical form built through dense stitched colour.
Contemporary embroidery artwork by Lucy Newman, exploring botanical mutation, bodily disorientation and the physicality of stitch
Hand embroidered textile artwork by Lucy Newman, with layered thread painting creating a glitched and unstable natural form.

Embroidery Art and Thread Painting

Lucy’s embroidered artworks are built through thread painting, a slow and highly physical hand embroidery technique. The works often begin with digitally altered imagery, but their final form is shaped through the resistance of thread, fabric and hand.

The process allows unstable images to become tactile and material. Colour, surface and distortion accumulate gradually, creating works that hold tension between control and disruption.