Lucia Babjakova is a Slovak-born artist living permanently in Shoreham-by-Sea. She studied Aesthetics and Cultural Studies at Masaryk University in Brno and gained her MA in 2010 with a thesis on the artist Francis Bacon. She has exhibited in Prague, Brno, Barcelona, London, Florence and Worthing. Her work is not style-specific but straddles abstract and representational painting and driftwood carvings. It is characterised by her strong use of colour, respect for nature and her ability to hint at ambiguity and uncertainty, implied narrative and, sometimes, a darkness beneath the surface of light.