Hannah Luxton
Essex
Contemporary British artist, Slade School of Art, UK graduate and Arts Council supported painter, concerning the natural sublime and the transcendental realms
Message'Dreampool (Rose) II' is one of a small series of watercolours that Luxton created during the Lockdown in 2020, and has since informed two large oil paintings. The piece challenges the traditional constructs of landscape painting by omitting the horizon line, creating a feeling of floating, with the soft fuzzy pink suggesting a cloud in the sky. Luxton often deliberately evades scale to surreal effects. The familiar globule could be understood as a liquid pool, a gemstone, or a negative space; a hole. In her Rose series, Luxton places us a little further out of our comfort zone than we might like, by giving the globule a bodily, blood red shade. She mediates this feeling with the comforting candy floss cloud hovering above.
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