Lucy is a graduate from the Slade School of Fine Art Masters program who specialises in modern landscape painting. Her work looks at the merging of fictional and real space and questions the part that memory and the mind can play in altering a view of a place.

Smallbone is a recipient of such prizes as the Haworth trust grant(2011), the David Balladie travel
prize(2009) and travelled to Chernobyl in 2016 with The Duveen Travel Prize