Artist's Statement
“My paintings are an unashamed and joyous celebration of life, a passionate defence of beauty and domestic harmony, steeped in the English Romantic tradition. I would like the work to stand as a symbol of promise in a world where satire and irony predominate, and to express our sense of existence through the recognition of the transforming power of colour and light.
Through the arrangement of shape, line, pattern and colour I try to conjure the lyrical and the dreamlike, a place at peace with itself. The still life and figure paintings do not generally represent an actual moment in time, but are rather the result of a process of reflection, recollection and reinvention, a distillation of human experience. the flowers in the jug, or the nude on the bed belong not to now, but to all time, just as the abstract elements of colour and light are timeless, and connect us to both the past and the future, to the visible world, and to the invisible.”
Viewing Hugo's Work
UK
- Recently Sold
- Findlay Galleries, New York 2024
- Cricket Fine Art, London 2023
- Findlay Galleries, Palm Beach and New York 2021
- Findlay Galleries, Palm Beach 2020
- Findlay Galleries, New York 2017
- Findlay Galleries, 2016
Palm Beach, USA - Josie Eastwood Fine Art, 2016
Winchester, UK - Kunsthandel Studio 2000, 2016
Domburg, Holland - Findlay Galleries, 2013
New York, USA - Findlay Gallery, 2011
New York/Palm Beach, USA - Findlay Galleries, 2009
Palm Beach, USA - Josie Eastwood Fine Art, 2007
London, UK - Findlay Galleries, 2006
New York, USA - Messum’s, 2005
London, UK - Messum’s 2003
London, UK - Messum’s, 2002
London, UK - Messums, 2001
London, UK - Messum’s, 2000
London, UK - Messum’s, 1999
London, UK - Messum’s, 1997
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Summer in the Aegean
(HG 1251) Oil on Canvas 48" x 54"