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Ghost Nets Beverage cans and goggles collected from lakes and oceans by divers, encaustic, collage 30” x 40” 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1652222946991-JZF5PHFMESL6ILINHO1U/image-asset.jpeg Ghost Nets - Ghost Nets Beverage cans and goggles collected from lakes and oceans by divers, encaustic, collage 30” x 40” 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1652223766596-FX4ALO0UP60NHKHG4VIC/IMG_3027.jpeg Ghost Nets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1652223772657-D0YTU3P7MJHYH9OG16YK/IMG_3035.jpeg Ghost Nets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1652223781675-QBUKSN69S336XROVQFRK/IMG_3031.jpeg Ghost Nets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1652461865435-63HXDZMXYF25AGE12D7J/image-asset.jpeg Ghost Nets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1652461890949-MZSLWDM6TVOV65LONG77/image-asset.jpeg Ghost Nets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1652461912073-56SFI5RZAKU0CBNBEEPV/image-asset.jpeg Ghost Nets https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1652462152196-N96E7QJOEB1M3R1EVCO0/image-asset.jpeg Ghost Nets http://www.cathhughes.com/art daily 0.75 2025-06-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1683221061022-5V8NLFI6S7EHD0SSV5LX/05_AWalkinthePark_2022_Hughes.jpg art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1683231673547-XOYRS4IEPK04C435RD9R/IMG_2619.jpg art - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1683231665042-5EGK2VS5NGQ9VWG2KOWI/IMG_2617.jpg art - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/9c5a9bf8-ac46-486e-b6fd-f0ef58658901/IMG_2945.jpg art - Make it stand out Whatever it is, the way you tell your story online can make all the difference. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1632440315185-YWRG8ZDHRP77L9W4N5ZM/drawing_35.jpg art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1632890645927-HM84K41WV4BDV1P5TNPC/2018_PerchancetoDream_crop_sm.jpg art - Perchance to Dream Oil on canvas 18” x 18” 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1497907353518-1929LC6KPSGLMX0SVJ3U/Mummery_Pokery_Moose.jpg art - 'Obby 'Oss Oil on canvas 30” x 30” 2016 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1632890989190-V5MLHL37C9QZIHDGAXK0/2018_ToJourney_sm.jpg art - To Journey Oil on canvas 20” x 40” 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1497906798913-IV695C7NEIDAKB7O1KB5/2017_The_Chasm_Cath_Hughes.jpg art - The Chasm Oil on canvas 9” x 12” 2017 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1683221492502-VWR048L6JXY92HB3RMUO/image-asset.jpeg art - Where You End and I Begin Acrylic, graphite, collage on Stonehenge paper 22” x 15” 2020 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1667245225253-902JWWROXRT4LDDHJE3S/12ClocheRed.jpg art - Red Biodome Mixed Media in glass dome with wooden base 12” x 6” 2022 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1667521346298-5X1P2OTYFT74VJSL6CK6/Hughes_RewildingIX%2528Sunrise%2529_2021_sm%2Bcopy.jpg art - Vancouver Sun(Rise) Paper Collage on Stonehenge paper 22” x 30” 2021 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1667522983007-8MGUM1U2RDLKP3RP95T8/GhostNets_front.jpg art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1632439811198-O4NR98JWUJRLIIXC2PTZ/10_TongueTied.jpg art - Tongue Tied Mixed Media 8’ x 6’ 2019 These pieces take the form of assemblages formed from eclectic materials which hang on the wall and/or sit on the floor. These pieces work in the interstices between painting and sculpture and use abstract forms to evoke poetic and psychological associations. They are informed by an innate familiarity with the language of classical painting gained from seven years teaching at the National Gallery in London. ‘Hang Ups describes both the way in which many of the works are hung (sometimes apparently ‘hanging by a thread’) on the wall, often appearing to be overcome by the pull of gravity as they tumble down to the floor, It also makes reference to a psychological dimension suggested by the work - a sense of dramatic tension, or precariousness. We live in an age of hang ups, fuelled by social media and consumerism. The mechanisms of marketing and lifestyle influencers creates in us a constant feeling of lack. We will be better, happier, if only we can have that thing, get better abs, reduce our facial lines or such like. Of course it is all futile as we only long for the next thing that will ‘fix’ us. In 1966 American minimalist sculptor Eva Hesse created ‘Hang Up’, a piece consisting of an empty painting stretcher obsessively wound with cord and painted, and a metal ‘line’ (a steel tube) projecting out from the stretcher into the gallery space. It was part sculpture, part painting, and, for Hesse, was the first piece that she made that achieved the level of absurdity or extreme feeling she was seeking in her work. She titled the work to refer to both the process of installing a painting and to a psychological preoccupation. This work responds to Hesse’s exploration of absurdity and dramatic import, with a contemporary take on throwaway materials and with a flourish of pop inspired colour. The pieces use a painterly language which is informed by the complex and dramatically ‘staged’ compositions of figures from Western classical mythological paintings. In a frozen moment of suspense as found in these paintings, the elements of the pieces are hung in the balance, ‘up in the air’ before they may take off or collapse. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1683220570420-XL6O8QGZI6EDPA9JZ9Y7/image-asset.jpeg art - Canaries in the Coal Mine Dimensions: approx 8” x 18” Mixed Media: Plastic bottles and other plastics, rivets, found object, encaustic paint, plaster bandage 2022 The base of this piece is a plastic laundry liquid bottle, out of which many forms are seen to proliferate, all created from similarly coloured plastics. The forms emulate those found in nature, almost as if the plastic has been allowed to re-wild itself, as we might see with an artificial reef in the ocean, or in places where nature has been allowed to once again dominate man made structures, such as in the abandoned city of Pripyat after the Chernobyl explosion. Each piece of plastic is carefully cleaned, cut, sanded and manipulated into its new form, allowing it to metamorphose, both in form, but also in the value applied to it due to this exquisite attention. At the apex of this newly formed habitat, a yellow bird sits, offering hope of bringing species back to our world. At the same time, the title references our position as canaries in the coal mine, being the first people to live with plastics in our environment, and increasingly aware of how plastics are being absorbed into our biology. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1745966763099-CJALEK7AA39SMHOVICPS/image-asset.jpeg art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1720642609178-9XUXUYZKEKBHCQ5I50DU/IMG_4942.JPG art https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5787179f59cc6802a0cd74d2/1683221061022-5V8NLFI6S7EHD0SSV5LX/image-asset.jpeg art - A Walk in the Park Found objects, encaustic paint, cardboard, canvas. 2022 Approx 2’ x 6 A Walk in the Park was completed during my Community Art Residency supported by the North Vancouver Recreation Commission in 2022. I took residence in a field house in Chris Zuehlke Memorial Park in North Vancouver for 3 months. 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