Harry Hugo Little

Harry Hugo Little is a British artist based in London. Working predominantly in oil, his paintings explore memory, grief and the afterlife through a visual language informed by poetry and the natural world. Forests and the landscape surrounding his childhood home have become particularly important, providing both imagery and a symbolic vocabulary of earth, flesh, growth and the unknown.

At the heart of Little’s practice is the memory of his brother, Julius Jake Little. Painting has become a means of remembering him and of exploring how a relationship might persist through absence. Rather than representing grief directly, Little allows it to emerge through atmosphere, colour and forms that shift between recognition and obscurity.

Poetry and painting continually inform one another in his practice, with language fragmented, stretched, concealed or partially revealed. Through this interplay of image, language and landscape, Little considers remembrance and longing, and the ways in which absence can continue to carry a sense of presence.