Figuratively Speaking

This book contains art images of the nude female form. The commonality that unites us all is our human body. Beauty has been found in the human figure since the dawn of human existence; each age and culture finding their own version of beauty in its form. Today we are presented with a narrow view of the beautiful-body, but beauty transcends the transient mood of the times. Beauty manifests when our senses are aroused: sounds that delight, smells that entice, tastes that please, touches that thrill, shape and colour we see or an abstract ‘something’ that stirs the heart. When we look at a cloud or into the dancing flames of a fire, it is our imagination, perhaps triggered by our sub conscious that allows us to see images of fantasy or altered reality.



The intense pleasure produced by our sensory manifestations is that of beauty.



The essence of beauty can be found in the simplicity of the symmetry of the human form and our imagination.



Chris Hutchinson has produced new works that capture elements of beauty in his sculptures, etchings, woodcuts, engravings, photographs and paintings, whether in abstracted or stylized representations of the human form.