About Lucy

Lucy Njoki is a textile and embroidery artist, living and working in Camden, London, with her three children.

Lucy is a textile journaller, whose work explores the themes of love, hope, connection, belonging and home. She creates imagery inspired by day dreams, the wonders of nature, life’s simple joys and small everyday delights; collaging, stitching and printing them into being using fabric, thread and paint. In doing so, Lucy creates visual stories in the pages of fabric books and scrolls, told with a sense of nostalgia, of the bitter sweet, found at the intersection of life, love and loss.  

Lucy sources vintage, preloved, natural textiles, remnants and deadstock fabric to use in her work, in addition to vintage ephemera and deconstructed preloved jewellery.

Lucy enjoys teaching and has experience of running workshops for both adults and children.

Highlights of Lucy’s career include designing projects and tutorials for creative magazines; working with primary school children to design and create banners for the anniversary of women’s right to vote and sharing her skills and expertise as activism in community with others.  

Lucy is of mixed African and British heritage. She believes in the importance of inclusion and representation in all areas including the creative world of the arts and literature.