Natalia Hughson

Natalia Hughson was born and grew up in the Ukraine. She graduated from Kharkov Medical School and was trained as a psychiatrist. After she started practicing psychiatry she also studied art at Poltava Art School. Natalia Hughson was one of the first art therapists in the Ukraine. Her art was exhibited numerous times in the Ukraine as well as in Finland. After she immigrated to the United States she had exhibition in the City of Tempe, Arizona. Natalia Hughson exhibited her art at various conferences at the national as well as international level.

Currently she is a professor of University of Advancing Technology (Tempe, Arizona). She is also the author of “Psychology of Creativity” book. Natalia Hughson has 17 publications and presentations on national and international conferences. The area of her expertise is creative behavior, factors that stimulate or hinder creativity, and the way creativity can be enhanced.

In her art Natalia Hughson is trying to show the beauty that doesn’t exist in reality. The concept, idea, and hidden meaning of her paintings awake a viewer’s imagination and fantasy. She is not attached to one style. Meanwhile she has her favorite one – surrealism. Mostly she does oil paintings. Each painting profoundly differ from others. She doesn’t like to repeat herself. There are many sources for the imagery in her work, from the art historical to the vernacular, and they are often thrown into opposition with or played against one another. She is also time travel — from the distant to the recent past — in the same piece.

Surrealism, abstract, post-modernism, computer graphics, fantasy art.