A selection of colorful paintings by New York artist Georgia Hourdas. Born in Florida, Hourdas grew up surrounded by nature, an enduring source of inspiration that can be seen through the organic patterns and colorful forms depicted in her work. Using abstract forms of recurring shapes such as coral, flowers, planets and mushrooms, Hourdas creates embryonic and uterine but also playful pieces:
“Unlike their ambient or photographic backgrounds, the shapes are painted in bold solid colors. Spectral strings of color weave between the shapes in a fractal pattern, much like a mycelial web in the Earth’s soil, or the swinging arms of carnation corals in the ocean.I view the forms as angelic beings living in a utopian world.While some paintings are simply oil on canvas, I frequently use photographically printed fabric in my work as ready-to-use background to place my favorite ideal shapes on, with the aim of making them feel closer to reality in a mysterious way.
Check out more of Hourdas’ paintings below!
