Tangerine Gold 2024 - Karen Hughes
Karen Hughes
Tangerine Gold 2024
Acrylic on board
30cm x 30cmÂ
$450
This series specifically explores the aesthetic qualities of acrylic paint through the use of various application techniques. Using a limited colour palette, this media is manipulated to create gestural marks and fine lines. The pushing and pulling of paint highlights and recedes certain elements in the works and the building up of layers and the use of sgraffito bring into focus deliberate detail.
Most of these marks and striations are intricacies of native coastal flora that are open to the elements, organically grown and weathered that are represented and rendered. The use of strong textural line and gestural brushwork draws the audience to examine purpose and meaning.
My practice is inspired directly by my local environment. Still Life artists, Margaret Olley and Georgio Morandi are wonderful teachers alongside Brisbane based artists Emily Day, Kate Quinn and Sophie Munns have also been influential. Ceramic vessels are a love of mine, they are represented singularly and multiply throughout my compositions.