Hannah Luxton London, UK, b. 1986
Hannah Luxton makes paintings inspired by the geological sublime and the late 18th Century Romantic notion that a divine order resides within raw nature. Her works reach further back in time still, finding an emotional kinship with the implicit sense of the sublime traceable within prehistoric art, and are further enhanced by animistic currents, which hint towards a higher spiritual dimension.
Luxton finds her subjects within nature - the sun, the moon, stars, mountain tops, craters and ice caverns - condensing and abstracting each referent into an archetypal version of itself. Her paintings slow time and elude direct interpretation. Their strong emotive core is yet fragile and fleeting and they speak an elementary, instinctual language rooted in a place of pre-rational understanding.
Luxton has an instinctive empathy for Eastern philosophies of the Void that embrace this space as freedom beyond the confines of the material world, and seek it out as the purest mental state of existence. Luxton uses bare linen to give substance and significance to supreme ‘nothingness’, dissolving the boundary frequently drawn between ‘the natural world’ that surrounds us on Earth and the ‘natural’ sphere of the cosmos.
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Hannah LuxtonStar Stream II, 2021Oil on unprimed Belgian linen51 x 36 cm
20 1/8 x 14 1/8 inches -
Hannah LuxtonA Change in the Weather, 2020-21Oil on unprimed ivory linen110 x 95 cm
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Hannah LuxtonBlue Ice Valley, 2020-21Oil on unprimed ivory linen66 x 51 cm
26 x 20 1/8 inches -
Hannah LuxtonDreampool (Rose), 2020Oil on unprimed ivory linen100 x 80 cm
39 3/8 x 31 1/2 inches -
Hannah LuxtonDreampool Study (Rose) I, 2020Watercolour and soft pastel on paperH 27cm x W 20cm x D 2cm H 10.63" x W 7.88" x D .79"£ 300.00
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Hannah LuxtonStar Stream, 2019Oil on unprimed Belgian linen120 x 95 cm
47 1/4 x 37 3/8 inches -
Hannah LuxtonDreampool, 2018/19Oil on unprimed ivory linen100 x 80 cm
39 3/8 x 31 1/2 inches -
Hannah LuxtonThe Puddle and the Plateau, II, 2018/19Oil on unprimed Belgian linenH 130cm x W 100cm x D 4cm H 51¼" x W 39½" x D 1¾"Sold
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Hannah LuxtonNumina, II, 2018Oil on unprimed Belgian linenH 110cm x W 100cm H 43½" x W 39½"Sold
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Hannah LuxtonMoon DreamOil on unprimed Belgian linen90 x 75 cm
35 3/8 x 29 1/2 inches
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The Little Window Gallery
A focus on ceramics by Tom Norris 30 Sep - 13 Nov 2021 -
Close to Home
The everyday sublime 11 Aug - 25 Sep 2021In this altered time, our gaze has been turned inwards to our immediate environment. Staring at this restricted view we can begin to see more clearly and we are reminded...Read more -
MERRY-GO-ROUND
12 Nov 2020 - 20 Feb 2021A exhibition of British and International painting, sculpture and ceramicsRead more -
Reflection
19 Jun - 19 Oct 2020An exhibition of diptychs by British and International artistsRead more -
Adazzle
11 Dec 2019 - 1 Feb 2020The London exhibition presents British and International paintings and sculptureRead more