Henry Hoffman is a multidisciplinary artist born and currently living in London. His main themes are based on traces, symbolism and memory; something we need to be reminded of in modern life. His paintings focus on nostalgia and our innate ability as viewers to create story through abstraction. Henry’s most recent body of work centres around materiality, how beauty can be extracted from materials and craft. With a keen interest in materials that have lived a life previously, many of the works center around the idea that nothing is new, things can be taken from their previous existence and thrust into a different world, conveying fresh ideas and heightening an objects existence. Much like the beauty in antiques or traditional crafts, Henry’s work highlights how the weather-beaten fabrics often used in his work carry more weight than that of something new. The work displays how the many forms of a person, place or thing gives the capacity for anyone to create their own reality; an environment of their own design. Hoffman shows that abstraction creates a human moment; a trace of what was once. A feeling of sonder.
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