///DIANE HUGHES : PHOTOGRAPHY/MIXED MEDIA

Capturing longevity and simplicity, Diane Hughes creates mixed media photographs that reflect her passion for nature.  Diane Hughes received a BFA in Graphic Design from Southampton College in New York.  She has exhibited her work in North Carolina and New York and has had her photography published in Great Unknowns: An Exquisite Collection of Black and White Photography.

"In response to a childhood uprooted by illness, frustrating diagnosis, and the stresses of dis-ease, the physical power and symbolic wisdom of “Trees” have become an enduring source of inspiration in my photographic work. Drawn to the strength, rawness, texture, shape, and human-like depth of older trees, the core image always begins in black and white. I then obscure this image with organic materials such as tea, dirt, raw vegetable juice, olive oil and vinegars with the goal of creating color, texture, a new physicality and an affirmation of health.

My aim is to explore new materials and modes of creating texture, an enhancement of the work’s dimensionallity, and a deepening of the work’s content through reflection on the experiences of my young life and how they actually find their way into the work. The more authentically rich my relationship is to self and my
expression, the greater the canvas will be impacted and thusly the viewer.."

11-Month Affiliate Artist
April 13, 2009 - March 22, 2010