Eden

Bog Midnight

Bellevue 

Resplendent

Swimming in the Clouds

Verenda`

Boulevard

Resplendent  

Highway

Passage

Emperor

Turtle Island 

Venus

Maritime

Hybrid Myth

Empress

Park View

Lagoonis

- installation

Aitutaki

Promenade 

Harmony 

Festival 

Propagate 

Honeycomb 

Moorea

Tuttle Island

Community Garden

Coral Cove

 Rush Hour

Roller Coaster

Oceanus

Artery 

Blue Tango

Palm Beach

Truley (2023)

Happy Hour (2023) 

Motu Park

Dad's Orchid

Roller Coaster 

& Ramon Robertson - installation

Playground

Street Appeal (2024)

Potted Colour

Belonging 

Taveuni (2023) 

The Reunion (2023)

Honeycomb (2023) 

Neighbourhood Watch 

Blue Moon (2024)

Green Way

Night Patrol

Michael McHugh has been painting for more than thirty years. His practice has consistently explored colour, composition and textural, abstract form with a strong connection to the natural world. McHugh collects a range of different photographs and drawings during research trips visiting museums, libraries and gardens around the world, returning to his studio to draw and create a series of collages, which lead to large format paintings.

With the use of gestural acrylic mark making, McHugh creates a layered abstraction moving between the paintings’ surface and botanical shapes. Works are sometimes sombre and brooding, and at other times energetic and vibrant, with textural layers echoing moments in time. McHugh believes constant drawing and collaging to be fundamental to his painting process. This foundation enables him to fully explore composition and vigorously push boundaries with colour and technique.

Graduating from Whitecliffe College of Arts & Design in New Zealand, he has attended masterclasses in painting at the National Art School in Sydney, Australia. He currently works in the creative media industry and also exhibits his work in Sydney, Australia. McHugh’s work is held in a number of private collections in New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom.  

Michael McHugh - New Paintings

Michael McHugh - New Paintings