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abstract, art, artists, beauty, fantasy, landscapes, Nature, Paintings, Shara Hughes
It’s not surprising I’m drawn to these so-called landscapes by Shara Hughes. They remind me of Matthew Wong’s mysterious mindscapes and Odilon Redon’s poetic paintings, whose work I’ve shared on these pages as well. The real and surreal, the interior and exterior, the symbolic and psychological wrap around and feed each other. You enter places that feel real and dreamlike at the same time. Beautiful and disturbing, fluid and chaotic, lush and luminous.
Her current show “Time Lapsed” at the Kunstmuseum Luzern in Switzerland includes this statement about her work: “These fantasy landscapes satisfy our need for beauty on the one hand, but also arouse a slight uneasiness on the other. The nature depicted seems irrepressible and at times even threatening in its exuberant fullness. Shara Hughes’s landscapes are mood pictures that convey feelings, emotions, or memories.”
Perhaps that’s why they feel familiar, like some otherworldly place I’ve been before—evoking dreams, memories, emotions that wait just below the surface and lure me inward.
Deborah J. Brasket 
Very interesting. I’m not sure I’d want these on my walls.
They are huge! So probably wouldn’t fit on most walls. But they do well in galleries. I would bring one or more into my home if I could, but I can enjoy them online just as well. For me, it’s the “entering” a painting I enjoy so much, and I can do that from anywhere.
I’m glad you can enjoy them Deborah.
What is “Nycintimasty”? I’ve looked it up and I draw blanks…
Is your current art reflecting your own otherworldly places?
ps-happy belated b-day to us!
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Hi, flower-sister! A belated happy birthday to you as well. Nycictimasty, according to the artist, is when flowers close in the night to protect themselves, a kind of inward turning that Hughes identifies with. I haven’t painted in a while but am eager to return to it. I’d like to try some fantasy or abstract type landscapes. But first I promised a fox for my grandson, perhaps in a fantastical landscape setting 😉.