Daniel Hughes Spotlighted by Art Canada Institute

Oeno Gallery is pleased to share that Daniel Hughes was spotlighted by the Art Canada Institute in their 2025 year-end highlights, with his painting Fireflies II selected among their favourite artworks of the year.

Painted in 2025, Fireflies II is a large-scale oil portrait that captures a solitary young figure in a luminous summer landscape, exploring themes of vulnerability, light, and emotional resonance. The work exemplifies Hughes’s distinctive approach to observational realism, where technical precision and atmosphere converge to create deeply evocative imagery.

This recognition places Hughes’s work among a curated selection of standout contemporary artworks across Canada. Oeno Gallery congratulates Daniel Hughes on this meaningful acknowledgment of his practice and contribution to contemporary figurative painting.

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Fireflies II (2025) by Daniel Hughes
68 x 56 in, Oil on Canvas

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