Ira Hoffecker: Imagined Landscapes: with texts by Debora Alanna  (Edition: 1)
Ira Hoffecker: Imagined Landscapes Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9783969122846
Pub Date: September 2026
Imprint: DCV
Illustrations: 125
Price: £34.50
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Description:
Imagined Landscapes is an ongoing series of paintings by German-born artist Ira Hoffecker (lives in Vancouver, Canada) that begun during Covid lockdown. Due to restricted movement, she started growing a garden and painted the emerging plants. The flowers served as visual and tactile anchors during isolation, while her more recent paintings invent and imagine floral environments. Rather than describing real places, they suggest what a refuge might feel like. Inspired by botany, music, poetry, philosophy, mysticism, art, and more, Hoffecker‘s paintings embody harmony, tension, and reverence alike. This book features over 70 works from the last six years, each accompanied by an essay by Debora Allana, who writes: “Cultivation here is born through whimsy and the wilding of imagined space.”