For the Art Explorer - Anne Hughes Art

Visual Travelers

Explore higher resolution examples of Anne Hughes' artworks. Examine and discover subtle details of interconnecting forms, color and space. Art is a journey. Embark.

Through movement and energy a boat travels under the sun toward home.

Whirligig, 19" x 27" Soft Pastel

"We have joined the caravan, you might say, at a certain point; we will travel as far as we can, but we cannot in a lifetime see all that we would like to see or learn all that we hunger to know." The Immense Journey – Loren Eiseley

Concentric circles overlaid on a house and pond shaped fish with topiary hands, stylized water and leaves.

Home, 39 1/2" x 27 5/8" Soft Pastel

“Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”– Albert Einstein

Ring the Bells, 30" x 20" Soft Pastel

“The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.” – John Muir

Green leaves, elephants floating in outer space, cut paper, strong color of purple, oranges and greens.

The Window, 39 3/4" x 33" x 1" Soft Pastel on cut, shaped, layered paper, Acrylic on Mylar and one found object

“The history of life on earth is a history of the interaction of living things and their surroundings.” – Rachel Carson

A fish jumps from the sea spouting water and waves. A rabbit contains the moon and is perched on the edge of a lattice. Jelly fish, star fish and sardines congregate below.

Latticework, 20 1/4" x 14 3/4" Soft Pastel

"If there is magic on this planet, it is contained in water." The Immense Journey – Loren Eiseley

MicroMacro, 23 1/2" x 15 3/8" Soft Pastel

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better” – Albert Einstein

A transparent skull becomes a vista uniting nature images of sky, tree, fish, birds, frog with spine, face and eye.

I nextricably Bound, 37 5/8" x 23 1/8" Soft Pastel

“Nature always wears the colors of the spirit.” – Ralph Waldo Emerson

Green surrounds sunflowers above the night sky where ladybug worlds float above the tree hearted earth.

Under Canopies, 43 1/2 x 29 5/8" Soft Pastel

“In every walk with nature one receives far more than we seek.” – John Muir

Pictures of nature float across the page over transparent circles suns. Below is a large eye circle, fish, earth, moon, dragonfly, butterfly, and a bubbling center of light green.

Golden Circle, 30" x 44 1/2" Soft Pastel

“It is the marriage of the soul with nature that makes the intellect fruitful, and gives birth to imagination." – Henry David Thoreau

Hands reach out through space and nature. A rabbit leaps in the background.

Reach, 30" x 22" Soft Pastel

"Those who contemplate the beauty of the earth find reserves of strength that will endure as long as life lasts." – Rachel Carson

Center of the Universe, 30" x 22" Soft Pastel

"The question is not what you look at, but what you see." – Henry David Thoreau

A bird of night sky wraps around an island of plants that reach toward the light of the day sky. The positive and negative large shapes interlock.

Photosynthesis II, 44 1/4" x 30" Soft Pastel

"Imagination is the soil that brings dreams to life." – Unknown

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