Lachlan Hinwood

Lachlan Hinwood creates small-scale oil works that meditate on quietude, color, and a transcendental relationship with the natural world. Place is central to his artistic practice, as Hinwood often begins with observational sketches made during walks through the woods or from his studio window. Citing artists like Forrest Bess and Charles Burchfield, he focuses on the vibrancy and emotional resonance of light and landscape, creating paintings that teeter in and out of abstraction. His works hold a feeling of focus and quietude, balancing soft, atmospheric passages and dappled color with more graphic forms and motifs, sometimes even incorporating symbolic elements like hearts. The result is a practice that shifts between painterly textures and clean, distilled imagery, evoking the contemplative stillness of nature while suggesting its inner, spiritual dimension.

 

Hinwood’s style often evokes spiritual or romanticized depictions of nature, as he renders clouds, moonlight, sun motifs, and landscapes with an earthy palette and a golden-hour glow. Works such as Sun Shower and Pelican reveal his ability to translate fleeting natural phenomena into visual poems, whether through the graphic silhouette of a bird or the softened radiance of a celestial orb. Across his paintings, Hinwood cultivates a sense of reverence for the natural world, offering images that are at once symbolic and transcendent.

Lachlan Hinwood is a painter and educator currently living and working in Oregon. Hinwood was born 1995 in Altona, Manitoba, Canada, and earned a B.A. in Geography and Studio Art from Macalester College. He went on to complete an M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing at the University of Iowa. His work has been shown in notable solo, including Life Happens Everywhere, Nancy Margolis Gallery in New York, NY, 2024. He has participated in numerous group and two-person exhibitions, including those at My Pet Ram, New York, NY, 2023; Arusha Gallery, London, UK, 2023; Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, NY, 2023; Alzueta Gallery, Barcelona, Spain, 2023; and James May Gallery, Algoma, WI, 2022.