Opening 31 May, 2024 from 5-7 pm

Artist Stephen Hutchings will give a talk starting at 5:15 about his art practice and answer questions about the work in the gallery.  Everyone is welcome,  admission is always free and refreshments will be served.

Artist statement

My landscape paintings and drawings and prints are, in equal measures, both objective and subjective: they not only describe the world I know, but they also describe the world as I want it to be. I combine a resemblance to the external world we live in with the inner world of my emotions, my expectations and my hopes.

In my work, I engage with ideas about personal identity, mystery, revelation, and the infinite. Areas of rich dark are combined with areas of intense light, playing off of each other, acting as larger metaphors that refer to both ourselves, (as individuals and as part of a society) as well as to the world around us.

This exhibition brings together recent and new work representing a range of subjects, from trees to clouds, as well as extremes of sizes: Theatre of Trees is massive at 8’ x 40’ while the four Ghost Tree paintings are much more intimate at 12” x 12” each. Stephen Hutchings