莉莉•哈格里夫斯（Lily Hargreaves）的创作聚焦于描绘那些”尚未发生的历史瞬间”。她通过深入回顾历史，精心挑选并重构其碎片，创造出与当下紧密相连的新的叙事。她尤其被那些离奇、难解的历史悬案吸引，利用绘画的虚构特性将不同时代的元素自由融合，编织成一幅宏大的再造历史图景，从而在反思时留有推测的空间，为遥远的过去注入现实的生命力。

在风格上，哈格里夫斯选取了一种高度程式化的绘画手法，近似于两次世界大战之间英国艺术家所发展的硬边现实主义与怀旧主义的折衷。这种风格以细致的笔触呈现画面，同时将其不自然地应用于日常生活的田园场景，体现了一种试图控制和系统化周围世界的倾向。在当前面临诸多危机的时代，哈格里夫斯认为重新审视这种风格有其特殊的意义。

Lily Hargreaves' artistic creations focus on depicting "snapshots of a history that hasn't quite happened." By delving deep into the past, she patchworks together historical stories to build new ones that feel contemporarily relevant. She is typically attracted to events that are bizarre, seemingly unexplainable, and apparently unique and attempts to find ways in which to weave them into broader contextual tapestries, which allows her to bring life to distant pasts and invite reconsiderations without the need to find a conclusion.

Hargreaves has adopted a highly stylised painting style, reminiscent of the hard-edged realism and nostalgia developed by British artists between the two World Wars. This style is rendered in meticulous detail, reflecting an obsessive attempt to control and systematise the world around them, uncomfortably applying this to pastoral scenes of everyday life. In the current era, which faces numerous crises, Hargreaves finds it particularly appropriate to revisit this style. She incorporates these elements into her work as though trying to find some sense in the unexplainable subject matter.