About Lucy
Lucy Wellborn Smith
Lucy is a Georgia-based painter whose work explores the quiet poetry of texture, time, and transformation. A graduate of the University of Georgia’s highly selective Graphic Design program, Lucy brings a designer’s discipline to an artist’s intuition. Her years immersed in composition, color theory, and balance now reveal themselves through layers of paint instead of pixels.
Whether experimenting with cracked gesso, sun-washed dyes, or earth pigments, Lucy’s paintings embody a relaxed, natural elegance that mirrors her own presence: barefoot more often than not, intuitive, unpolished, yet always intentional. She’s the artist clients call when they want something soulful, grounded, and quietly powerful.
Her aesthetic bridges refinement and rawness: part design language, part lived-in soul. Whether hanging in a collected home or an airy modern space, her paintings feel like they’ve always belonged there.
News and Notables
2026
Schumacher x Lucy, Atlanta
EMERGE X Show, Bond Millen Gallery, Richmond
2024
nostalgia, Memento Gallery, Atlanta
2023
Kips Bay Decorator Showhouse Palm Beach, Amanda Lindroth
2024, 2022, 2021, 2020 Make-A-Wish Gala
2021 Bellerive Country Club, St. Louis
2020 Buckhead Art & Company, Atlanta, Group Show
2018 Art for Action, Atlanta
Tootsies, Featured Artist
2017 University of Georgia Hotel, Group Show