Scrolling through Laxmi Hussain’s Instagram page, one thing is clearly evident: her fondness of the color blue (but don’t call it an obsession). Known for her simple, but elegant, style of painting, her work often seems incomplete—a bird reduced to an outline or a face with an absent feature.
This incompleteness is deliberate, obliging her viewers to pause and engage with the artwork, filling in the absences themselves rather than dismissing it and moving on. It also adds to a sense of openness to her creations, which added to her use of blue, makes for a calming, even inviting, effect.
With thousands of followers on Instagram and exhibitions in galleries and art events around London, Hussain has also appealed to a variety of commercial clients and individuals. Working in several different media, she admits to being driven by experimentation, constantly exploring new techniques and searching for the shapes and subjects they express best.
As such, inspiration comes easy for her, sought out from the mundanities of everyday life: patterns found in home interiors, natural shapes found outside, and geometric, structured shapes, taken from architecture. Here are some of her more striking pieces.
