Garden of Dreams

Damien Hirst’s seemingly abstract candy-coloured flower field, ‘Garden of Dreams’, is an engulfing facsimile print from ‘Veils’ (H4). Depicting details derived from his ‘Veil Paintings’ (2017) series and published in 2018, in this work Hirst fills the pictorial space with Pierre Bonnard-like colours using a technique reminiscent of Pointillism to create works that function like a veil. The artist has described these compositions as acting as “a barrier, a curtain between two things...it’s solid yet invisible and reveals and yet obscures the truth”.