Danielle Hutchens / Fine Art / Painting / Recess Botanics VI Poppy

BETWEEN SOIL AND SKY
Exhibition Opens October 4 with the Artist In Person at Poet and/the Bench
A new exhibit by our artist Danielle Hutchens is an exploration of life’s natural cycles—growth, change, and renewal. From quiet beginnings underground, plants push into the light and bloom. Seeds scatter, taking root in both cared-for and unexpected places. Some flourish in ideal conditions, others thrive despite challenges. Each ending folds back into the soil, making way for the next beginning.

• Original painting, framed in poplar wood
• Materials – Pastels and natural pigments on raw canvas
• Size – 20x30 in

A note from the artist "I made this collection of work in the spring, after the Palisades Fire. Our house and studio made it through, though we were displaced for a month. We were very lucky to come home since some of our neighbors lost theirs. The view across the canyon– once thick with trees– had been completely stripped bare. For a long time, I carried a quiet anxiety, a kind of breath held. But then, in March, something shifted. I remember a soft exhale, the first one in a while. I felt like I could dream again. I could feel light again. At the same time, the black hills across from us, scorched and silent for months, began to green. Small things– tender shoots, shy buds– started to unfurl. Life, working underground in the quiet dark, was beginning again and in a soft yet vibrant way.

This collection is an observation on that kind of growth: how beauty rises out of stillness, how beginnings often arrive quietly. It’s about cycles and earth’s eternal well of creation. A hopeful happiness." ~ Danielle Hutchens 

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Topanga Canyon, CA

Danielle Hutchens brings natural elements to her fine art practice, introducing color, texture, and shape from the environment. Gestural marks, collected over time in sketches and memories, appear in various forms, organic and considered. A former career in graphic design also lends a narrative structure to Danielle's artwork. She works from her studio in Topanga Canyon, just outside Los Angeles proper, digging in the dirt with her hands and experimenting with themes of play, feminine and masculine energy and a curiosity for the world around her. As an earth pigment painter, she uses her environment as the palette in her paintings and as a ceramist, her non-toxic stoneware is also of the earth.

Learn more about artist Danielle Hutchens in our Conversations with an Artist series.