Growing pains
2022
- Gallery location
- Not on display
About this work
Depicting imagined landscapes, Shara Hughes views her works as reflections of her psychological interior world. She suggests that a single flower might be ‘a self-portrait, while a landscape feels more like a zoomed-out view of what’s going on personally or emotionally’. Hughes uses abstract and representational imagery, depicting natural motifs, snake-like trees, reflections of bodies in water and night skies alongside abstracted, undefined forms. Her technique, in which she mixes pigment on the canvas surface, is reminiscent of a range of art historical references, including Post-Impressionist and Colour Field painting.
Artwork Details
Purchased with funds donated by July Cao, 2024
© Shara Hughes, David Kordansky Gallery