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BIBBENLUKE LODGE: LUCYCULLITON’S COUNTRY MENAGERIE

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RENOWNED ARTIST LUCY Culliton loves her life in the country and admits to waking every morning excited about the day ahead. “Ialways plan a very busy day which starts with a pot of tea,” she says. “Then I’m greeting and feeding my family of animals.”

After breakfast Lucy paints. “Painting is my job, and I love my job”, she adds, “and later in the afternoon I cram in all my otherinterests.” There’s Walter the horse to ride, a garden to tend, lawns to mow. “By the end of the day I’m exhausted and usually

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disappointed that I haven’t managed to get everything done.”

Since 1999 Lucy’s been represented by in Sydney, she is a regular finalist in the Archibald, Wynne and SulmanPrizes. Her work is represented in the collections of the National Gallery of Australia and Parliament House, Canberra.

Ray Hughes Gallery

Lucy and her menagerie took up residence in an old fishing lodge in the tiny village of Bibbenluke located on the Bombala River in TheSnowy Mountains region of NSW around six years ago.

“I was living in Sydney at the time but I was looking to move to the country, I was thinking of building my own house at my parent’sproperty at Hartley in the Blue Mountains when by chance I found this place”.

Set on 60 hectares The Bibbenluke Lodge had been built in 1937 after the property’s original farmhouse had been destroyed by fire. Aknown trout fishing spot the lodge boasted beautiful gardens, with generous verandahs perfectly sited to take in the magnificent views.

Most of Lucy’s energy has gone in to the other buildings on the property while the lodge remains in its original state except for theremoval of old carpet to reveal the timber floorboards.

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Lucy and her menagerie took up residence in an oldfishing lodge in the tiny village of Bibbenluke, on the

Bombala River, around six years ago.

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An old barn was converted into a painting studio with the end wall knocked out and replaced with clear plastic sheeting allowing innatural light and giving the artist views of the paddocks filled with her collection of horses, pet sheep and chooks. A ramp was addedto the entrance so that Tristan the pet pig and Lucy’s posse of dogs and a favourite duck named ‘Cuddles’ can follow her in and ‘hang-out’ while she paints. A greenhouse that was used by the previous owners to house lavender is now the home to an impressivesucculent collection. An old tool shed makes a perfect home for a flock of pigeons.

Inside the main house meanwhile, the walls are hung with a mixture of Lucy’s paintings – old and new — as well as artworks byfriends and contemporaries-Maclean Edwards and Guy Brown. Delicate glass sculptures by fellow Hughes Gallery artist Tom Mooreare displayed in ‘the good room’. This is the living room that is designated for humans with the dogs having their main space down thehall, although it is the beloved dogs that seem to have all the best ‘spots’ stretched out on huge worn in sofas while Lucy and herpartner Jamie perch on the less comfortable furniture.

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Dotted around the house are ‘cabinets of curiosities’ – vintage display cabinets housing quirky collections of knitted animals and dollscollected by the artist who has used them as subjects for her work.

All of the home’s furniture has been ‘pre-loved’, foraged from junk shops or handed down by family, such as the day bed in the studiothat Lucy remembers from her childhood visits to her grandmother Biddie’s home in Sydney’s Roseville. A 70’s kitchen is the perfect‘stage’ for a classic brown laminex table and vinyl chairs found by Lucy’s sister Anna in an op shop in Lithgow.

Lucy plans to one day update the kitchen and add a wood burning stove which will heat the house-but for now there are otherpriorities.

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A local handyman-‘Tiger Bobbin’ is employed on a regular basis and his ‘old school’ skills and craftsmanship have seen the addition ofbeautifully detailed handmade gates, doors and windows frames which replace the originals lost over the years. Lucy likes to look onherself as one of the many in a long line of care-takers, “It’s just my turn”, she says with a smile.

Close friend and neighbour Pam Scott has guided Lucy through the process of restoring the magnificent garden to its former glory.The garden along with the old lodge and the surrounding landscape have been the subjects and inspiration for the artist’s work andcontinue to be.

It seems that waking up every morning in this place that she loves so much surrounded by her best friends is really the onlyinspiration this artist needs.

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