Flowers for the 21st Century - detail top
2015
Exuberant Delight in Found Materials and Critical Stitchery on Java Canvas and Wood Panel
62x32 inches, Ovoid
Landscape or still life?
A world to hold within my grasp, or a world to immerse myself into?
Flowers for the 21st Century - detail stitchery
2015
Exuberant Delight in Found Materials and Critical Stitchery on Java Canvas and Wood Panel
62x32 inches, Ovoid
Can stitchery remain true to stitchery,
with so much corruption of the rules?
Flowers for the 21st Century - detail foreground
2015
Exuberant Delight in Found Materials and Critical Stitchery on Java Canvas and Wood Panel
62x32 inches, Ovoid
And by “found” materials,
must I always really mean collected, curated, restricted?
…..sigh, oh dear.

Flowers for the 21st Century
2015
Exuberant Delight in Found Materials and Critical Stitchery on Java Canvas and Wood Panel
62x32 inches, Ovoid
A rectangle diminished?
To focus or to fragment?
Aiming at the scale of a full length mirror
(which always seems to cut off my head or my feet);
the ovoid view embraces its subject,
or curtails?

Flowers for the 21st Century - detail Mount
2015
Exuberant Delight in Found Materials and Critical Stitchery on Java Canvas and Wood Panel
62x32 inches, Ovoid
A circle or oval or rectangle; they forcefully contain.
Does a little bit pear-shaped suggest
that some forces outside of my control,
(like gravity for instance)
are at work?

Sharon Hogg is a visual artist working in Calgary Alberta and Lombardy Ontario, Canada. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Art and  a Masters of Fine Art from the Alberta College of Art and Design.


Where humans intersect with unseen natural forces, she imagines what lies behind or beneath the surface. More than seeing, she wants to feel the backstory, the understory, the glue that holds it all together. Her work seeks to bring that underlying level of awareness closer to the visible and the touchable.

The ​Sublime, New Materialism and the Vorticists are influences.