LUCY TEZIER
Flowers Are Calling Your Name
18.04 – 18.05.2025
Gallery 41 — Rue Ernest Allard 41, 1000 Brussels
Flowers are calling your name is the result of a ritual.
This body of work showcases six large paintings, structured around two monumental flowers that dominate each canvas. The flowers, executed in oil paint, are magnified beyond their natural scale, transcending their fragility to become forces of presence.
The gestural brushstrokes keep the eye moving across the canvas, making the pieces feel alive, while the layered compositions and subtle textures evoke a sense of quietness — like a memory surfacing, shifting between presence and dissolution, movement and stasis. A recurring color palette anchors the work, featuring dark backgrounds, burnt umber, pyrrole red, phthalo green, and shades of cream white. While some pieces vibrate with the richness of these layered colors, making the flowers stand out dramatically, others — such as Lyrics and Left Unsaid — adopt a more minimal approach: a spectral presence emerging from the mysterious world of the night.
If natureinspired motifs have been a recurring subject in her practice, this body of work isn’t just a depiction of flowers’ fleeting beauty — her work is intentionally confrontational. The scale demands viewers to step back and take them in from a distance. Lucy is seeking a pulse, a body buzz. Lucy’s studio practice began in the wake of loss. What started as an instinctive response to grief became a lifelong devotion — a way to alchemize feelings and confront mortality. Created between the summer of 2024 and the winter of 2025, “Flowers are calling your name” is her language of resilience, a way to both defy and embrace the impermanence of things.
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Park Avenue, 2025
Oil on canvas
190 x 130 cm -
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Dancing in the Dark, 2025
Oil on canvas
180 x 150 cm -
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Calling Your Name I & II, 2025
Oil on canvas
190 x 130 cm
Oil on canvas
190 x 130 cm -
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Bloomed Out, 2025
Oil on canvas
190 x 130 cm -
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Untitled #3, 2025
Pencil, alcohol-based marker on paper
28 x 34 cm -
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Left Unsaid, 2025
Oil on canvas
190 x 130 cm -
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Untitled #8, 2025
Pencil, alcohol-based marker on paper
28 x 34 cm
About the Artist
Lucy Tezier, born in 1993 in San Salvador, is a French artist based in Brussels. Over the past six years, Lucy has developed her signature floral motifs, repeatedly engaging flowers and plants as central figures in her work — a reflection of her fascination with the natural world.
In the studio, Lucy works with representation and abstraction, embracing the physicality of painting. The process itself — layering, covering, reworking — is central to her practice, where each canvas becomes a site of both memory and repair. Her paintings emerge through autobiographical meditations, forming an intimate dialogue with the material itself.
In September 2019, a pivotal moment occurred during a residency at Schmidli Backdrops in Los Angeles, a studio known for its large-scale hand-painted photography backdrops. On a stretched canvas over seven meters long, Lucy painted her first Flower Field, exploring a new relationship to scale, gesture, and landscape. California — with its expansive light, deserts, and untamed nature — has since become a recurring source of inspiration.
Influenced by her cosmopolitan education, from San Salvador to Nouakchott, New Delhi, Los Angeles, she moved to France aged 18, where she earned degrees in Applied Art, both in Fashion and Textile Design at the School of Art and Design ENSAAMA (Paris). She expanded her aim for painting as an artist's assistant in Paris, before pursuing her own fine-art practice.
Her last exhibition, Passage d’enfer, took place at 35/37, the previous incarnation of Dover Street Market in Le Marais. Her first solo exhibition, Flowers are calling your name, was on view from April 18th to May 18th, 2025, at Gallery41 (Brussels).
