During the first COVID-19 lockdown of 2020 I was commissioned to illustrate a gin bottle label for Batts Hill Distillers. Utilising the strong, masculine brand colours my brief was to create a magical illustration with a sundowner feel, capturing the essence of Delano and Bradley's friendship of neighbours, shared stories and fun celebrations into ‘A Taste of Friendship’ to offer their customers. I am delighted that the illustration has been selected by the Design, Product & Packaging category judging panel to be included on the World Illustration Awards 2021 Longlist! There are 500 entrie ..read more

Delano and Bradley's story is of family, neighbours and friendship who bonded over a love of Gin! During the 2020 Coronavirus lockdown they blended and bottled all of this passion into BATTS HILL, a Surrey Dry Gin. I am delighted and honoured that they commissioned me to illustrate the truly magical story for their first Gin ..read more

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During COVID-19 lockdown I set myself a challenge to draw figures/forms/people as I'd like to get better at using figures in my illustrations. So when I received an email from The Royal Drawing School with a list of new 'lockdown courses' I decided to jump at the opportunity. The course takes place once a week and runs for eight weeks. This is my second week and although I'm not a fan of Renaissance Paintings I am enjoying (virtually) observing and drawing from the paintings in The National Gallery. The tutors add context and give a brief historic account of their 10 chosen paintings for the l ..read more

I was a patient at The Royal Marsden a few years ago so I am delighted to have been invited to submit my art on postcards in aid of this wonderful charity auction... please see info below. In 2018 ,St Richard's Catholic College raised almost £15,000 for ,The Royal Marsden Cancer Charity in memory of former pupil Sophie Maria Taylor who died in April 2017. Sophie's Secret Postcard campaign is running again this year. Once again, ,Custard Print will be printing blank postcards for the event and we hope to start distributing them from September for a suggested donation of £1 each postcard. If yo ..read more

I've had some fun during lockdown creating a poster / editorial piece for the 2020 production of West Side Story. It was so interesting researching Mid Century New York City! I've included my initial idea sketches below ..read more

I've been using the COVID19 quarantine productively and have given my website a long overdue update and refresh! Still getting to grips with SEO and I'd much rather be creating than doing website admin but it's got to be done!! Take a look if you fancy it ..read more

Here's my contribution to They Draw and Cook's Fave Memory Handpicked Design Challenge. My Fave Memory from my childhood years in South Africa is sitting under the Almond trees in my Gran’s garden drinking tea, chatting about our day and eating home made jam tarts. My favourite part of this tradition was after we’d all drunk our tea Gran would read our tea leaves! I thought she was magic! #tea #tealeaves #packagingdesign #editorialillustration #lucindakidney #almondblossom #Florals #Flowers #goodfortune #memory #nostalgia #heritage #heirloom #vintage #spode #procreate #handdrawn #handletterin ..read more

The Anonymous heART project is back! Go to @luckidney to see sneak peeks of the three original pieces of artwork I’ve submitted to the @heartresearchuk #anonartprojectAll pieces will be auctioned on eBay from 4th – 13th October to raise money to take on heart disease. Please click on the link to take you to @heartresearchukwebsite to get an alert for when the auction goes live. #HeartResearchUK #AnonymousheARTProject #Flowers #Florals #handpainted #gouache ..read more

I recently participated in Salli Swindell's They Draw and Cook Handpicked Design Challenge. The theme was Birthday Bash and due to other freelance illustration commitments I had almost run out of time! I had one day left to create and submit something so I went to a local coffee shop with my iPad and this is what I submitted. I was delighted that Ceci Butler of Design House Greetings selected my illustration, amongst a few others, to showcase. Thank you so much Salli and Ceci for the opportunity ..read more