Dee Hogg is an artist with a wonderfully unruly creative path. An art school dropout who later graduated in Interior Design from London Guildhall University, she has spent much of her life noticing how spaces, surfaces, and atmosphere shape the way we feel. That sensibility runs through her work, which is layered, expressive, and full of energy.
Art runs through Dee's family. She grew up in a family of artists with little money. Her father and her aunt Vicky were brought up in London's Peabody Buildings. Vicky went to San Francisco, where she became well known for her cartoon work in 1960s Haight-Ashbury. Dad stayed in London and took a building job, later becoming a successful builder. He always encouraged Dee's art and paid for her to go to art school. When life got in the way and she left for the world of work, he was heartbroken. He died three years ago, before Dee found success in her second attempt to make it as an artist. Today, she often wears one of his shirts when she paints, a quiet reminder of the father who believed in her from the start.
Dee's paintings are built rather than simply painted. Working primarily in acrylic, Dee uses palette knives, gestural brushwork, sgraffito, and impasto techniques to create surfaces with real physical presence — work that changes as light moves across it, and rewards a closer look. The process is intuitive and often unpredictable: layers are added, scraped back, and reworked until the painting finds its own logic. The result is abstract work that feels both considered and alive.
Dee's subjects are drawn from the world around her — urban landscapes, nature, movement, atmosphere — but she's never interested in the literal. Her paintings capture a feeling, a tension, or a moment of energy rather than a fixed scene. She wants the viewer to bring their own story.
Exhibitions
In October 2026, Dee is exhibiting multiple works for the first time at the prestigious Paris Carrousel Louvre.
In September 2026 Dee has work being exhibited at SWISSARTEXPO, and her painting Dance is being exhibited at The Oxfordshire Open Art competition in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, through 'til mid October.
For the whole of August and September 2026 Dee is exhibiting multiple works at the Nicoleta Gallery in Berlin, and the Casa Del Arte in Palma, Majorca.
In July 2026, three of Dee's works — Sun Thorns, Pulse, and Salt & Spark — were on show at Galerie Chien d'Or, Quebec, Canada.
In March 2026, three works — Cab Home, Eclipsed Currents, and The Ark — were selected for exhibition at EXPO STRASBOURG 2026, Strasbourg, France.
Selected galleries & exhibitions
Alongside her art practice, Dee is a grandmother of five, a passionate traveller, an enthusiastic cook, an avid gardener, and a devoted cat lover. She has a particular fondness for Croatia, counts Valencia as her favourite city, and still remembers one especially memorable New Year's Eve spent on a party boat in Sydney Harbour. Known for her dry humour and occasional well-aimed sarcasm, Dee brings wit as well as warmth to everything she does.
Commissions are welcome — if you have a space in mind and want something made for it, get in touch at dee@deehoggfineart.com.
