by tom hughes
oil on linen
h: 160 w: 120 d: 6 (cms).
Britain has a long and quietly remarkable relationship with the natural world. For centuries, we’ve cultivated gardens that blur the line between the familiar and the exotic, places where Victorian explorers’ discoveries now grow beside native hedgerow species and small garden birds flit through foliage collected from the other side of the world. Tom Hughes’ paintings begin in these spaces. He spends time in botanical gardens, arboretums, and the wilder corners of curated estates, drawn to the areas where foreign plants have taken root in our climate and become part of a uniquely British ecology. At first glance, these scenes look tropical, but they are British, woven into our landscape and shaped by our weather. Drawing on the tradition of botanical collecting and horticultural exploration, Tom presents a contemporary vision of nature in Britain: one shaped by history, climate, and a deep cultural fascination with the exotic.
£20000 (As exhibited.)
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