Lyddy Solwyth

About

Lyddy Solwyth is a Glasgow-based interdisciplinary artist working primarily through drawing, printmaking, and sculpture. Her practice explores themes of inheritance, vulnerability, and the uneasy boundary between care and control, often drawing on rural working class histories, folklore, and medieval visual traditions.

Solwyth’s recent work focuses on creating a personal lexicon of symbols based in nature – particularly pollarded trees and lambs as sites of tenderness, deformity, and resilience. Using materials such as coloured pencil, graphite, and copper leaf, she creates quietly charged images in which bodies are entangled with foliage and ornamental motifs. These elements reference medieval marginalia, devotional imagery, and agricultural artefacts, while remaining rooted in contemporary concerns around innocence, violence, and systems of protection.

Her approach is research-led and materially sensitive, with an interest in slow, tactile processes and the ethical implications of sensitive, tentative mark-making – leaving space for what almost happened. Alongside her studio practice, Solwyth engages with print studios and communal making environments, valuing dialogue across disciplines.