Kaz Hughes
Kaz Hughes, an emerging, self-taught, acrylic artist residing on the north coast of NSW explores the use of bold colour and texture. Inspired by nature and its unruly coastal flora, Kaz creates from her home studio, her own interpretations of both botanical still life and floral abstraction. Regular camping, plein-air expeditions and bush immersions continually enrich her artistic journey.
Kaz held her first solo exhibition "Coastal Foraging" at Mist Gallery in 2023, which was met with great success. "Perspecta",
ecta, her second exciting exhibition was a collaborative project at
Studio 8 Currumbin December 2025. A finalist in Brisbane based, Studio on Brunswick's Independent Visions Art Prize in February 2026 has resulted in Kaz being represented with Pepperbox Gallery and Emergent Online.
ARTIST STATEMENT
Instagram: @kazhughesart
Kaz's artistic pursuits interchange from richly detailed still-life botanicals to expressive abstract works that continue to celebrate the beauty of the natural world. Many of her works express wild-flowers, banksias, pods and seeds sprouting exuberantly from rustic ceramic vessels.
Her latest works embrace a more abstract visual language while remaining deeply connected to botanical influences. Layers of luminous colour sweep across the canvas, where bold greens intertwine with radiant pinks and earthy pigment rich tones. Gestural circular mark-making merges with more defined foliage to create compositions that evoke leaves and native bush botanicals and the movement of the landscape without defining them literally.
This evolution has allowed Kaz to explore the emotion and atmosphere that nature personifies when she is immersed in it. She uses a limited colour palette expanding it with tinting and toning, resulting in lights and darks creating a myriad of facets emulating dappled light.
Rather than depicting nature exactly as it appears, she seeks to capture the essence of the natural world- ..... its vitality and rhythm.
The result is a collection of contemporary abstract paintings that invite viewers to discover their own connection to the organic forms and colour.
