Cherry Hood is an Australian artist, best known for her oversized paintings of children's faces.
Hood has had solo shows in New York, Zurich, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Toronto and Vancouver.
Hood prefers to work in watercolour, which she allows to bleed and drip, to produce her oversized paintings.
Hood specialises in intense depictions which are most frequently anonymous composites with their own identities and not portraits of any actual person.
In 2001 she was an Archibald Prize finalist with her water colour of art lecturer Matthÿs Gerber,[6] in 2007 she was again a finalist with her water colour of Australian artist and social commentator Ben Quilty,[7] and in 2010 with her portrait of Michael Zavros.
[9] It was a photograph picture of Australian pianist Simon Tedeschi that first caught Cherry Hood's eye.