Shara Hughes
Some Seas Just Don't Mix, 2023
Oil, acrylic and dye on canvas
243.8 x 182.9 cm
96 x 72 in
96 x 72 in
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Some Seas Just Don’t Mix describes a range of thoughts and sensations that Hughes experienced in the early summer of 2022, when she spent time in Skagen, norther Denmark. The...
Some Seas Just Don’t Mix describes a range of thoughts and sensations that Hughes experienced in the early summer of 2022, when she spent time in Skagen, norther Denmark. The Baltic and North seas come together at the top of Denmark, in a dramatic seascape, yet the two seas, of different temperatures and densities, never fully mix. Hughes depicts this phenomenon as a dynamic collision of two bodies of water at the top of the peninsula, accurately reflecting the geography of the site. Yet the painting is above all an expressive, inner landscape, evoking the work of Marsden Hartley or Charles Burchfield, or even the Danish master Asger Jorn. The sea is often an image of the unconscious, and here Hughes shows how competing thoughts and emotions collide, conjuring a sense of ambivalence or conflict that is both dramatic and beautiful.