CHIMBA ART
Story. Culture. Color. Soul.
The Artist
Art That Reveals Itself
Chimba is a contemporary intuitive artist whose work moves between figurative abstraction, abstract expression, and visual storytelling.
Working through an intuitive and emergent creative process, Chimba allows forms, figures, symbols, and stories to reveal themselves organically through color, line, texture, movement, and instinct.
Selected
Featured Works
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Available Art
A selection of original works currently available for acquisition.
Reproductions
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A curated selection of Chimba works is available as fine-art reproductions.
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I don't always decide what the painting will become. Sometimes the image presents itself to me, and my job is simply to recognize it and allow it to come forward.
— Chimba
Stories in Another Form
Beyond the Canvas
Chiarra Hughes-Mba is also an author writing under the name CJ Hughes, extending her storytelling practice from visual art into literature.
Through fiction, she explores character, identity, relationships, transformation, and the complexities of lived experience.
By CJ Hughes
Cuyler's Diary
A diary-form novel by CJ Hughes — a raw, intimate account of transformation, loss, and the search for self on city streets.
By CJ Hughes
Micheal Rogue: Life Unscripted
She is not your average woman. A bold re-release of CJ Hughes' novel following Micheal Rogue — a woman living life entirely on her own terms.
Story. Culture. Color. Soul.
Contemporary intuitive art by Chiarra Hughes-Mba, known artistically as Chimba. Based in Hudson, New York.
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HUDSON, NEW YORK