Lydia Wood

Lydia Wood is a pencil artist who is on a mission to draw every single pub in London. She shares her drawing process and pub adventures to over 93,000 followers across her social media channels and the project has been featured in a number of news outlets including the BBC, The Independent and Time Out. The pub project began in 2021 and with there being over 3,000 pubs in London; it could take a minimum of 10 years to finish. Lydia was born in Ealing, West London and studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths University, graduating in 2016. She then went on to teach children art across schools in London before focusing on her own practice and drawing pubs full time from 2020. She now lives in Catford, South East London, and when she’s not out sketching and exploring pubs across the city; she’s working on commissions from her studio in Deptford.