exhibITion: Flora & Ember
Featuring the art of Brooke Hutchens
Featuring the art of Brooke Hutchens
FEATURED LOCAL ARTIST:
exhibITion: Flora & Ember is a celebration of nature’s intricate beauty and resilience, conveyed through a variety of mediums—wood burning, painting, drawing, and cyanotypes. Inspired by the organic forms and delicate structures found in flora, this body of work seeks to explore the relationship between nature’s fragility and its enduring strength.
Brooke has made art in Oklahoma City for more than 18 years. Her artwork has appeared nationally, from Times Square to The Vampire Diaries. She hand-mulls watercolor paints derived from natural earth pigments through her business, Redbud Pigment Co., which she uses in her artwork.
exhibITion: Flora & Ember benefited Positive Tomorrows, Oklahoma’s only school and social services agency specifically for children and families experiencing homelessness. Our brewery sponsor was Angry Scotsman Brewing.
“Each piece in this collection highlights the floral world, capturing the essence of petals, leaves, and stems through different artistic techniques. Wood burning, with its raw, elemental process, mirrors the way nature leaves its mark on the earth. The burnt lines in my pyrography work are reminiscent of the way fire shapes and renews the landscape, echoing the cycle of destruction and rebirth in the natural world,” says Brooke.
“In contrast, my paintings and cyanotypes offer a different perspective, focusing on the fleeting moments of beauty in a constantly evolving environment, while highlighting seasonal blooms both native and foreign to Oklahoma. Color is always the driving force.”
At the opening, guests participated in a free cybersecurity info session from exhibITion sponsor, Datto. Datto provides products to backup, restore, and protect data; simplify operations; and manage networks. Amshot is proud to be a platinum vendor with Datto.
Cox also sponsored exhibITion: Flora & Ember.
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