About Oliver Hurst

I have a strong interest in history’s societal and political swells and deflations, from which came the inspiration to start a series of paintings I’ve named ‘Capriccios’. It is a merging of my love of 18th and 19th century painting styles and my interest in social history and what it’s future may bring. The central focus of these paintings are ruins based on a similar structures in Rome and throughout Europe which may symbolise tragically fallen enlightened civilisations, or the reverse; self-imploded and doomed empires. Either way, they are scenes of people coping with what has been thrust upon them, for better or worse.