| Galleries » Contemporary British Paintings 1950- » Patrick Hughes |
| Patrick Hughes was born in Birmingham, UK, in 1939, and is
today widely recognised as one of the top painters of contemporary British art. He is a
painter, designer, teacher and writer. He studied at James Graham Teachers' Training
College, Leeds, from 1959-1961. He then qualified as a teacher and held his first solo
exhibition at the Portal Gallery in 1961. For three years in the early 1960s, he taught in
Leeds schools before becoming a senior lecturer in painting and drawing at Leeds College
of Arts from 1964-1969. After a year studying art education at London University, Hughes
taught for four yeasrs at Chelsea and Wolverhampton Schools of Art from 1970. In that year
he head a one-man show at Angela Flowers Gallery, and more there over later years. Hughes was included in a shor of Surrealist pictures at Crawshaw Gallery in 1988. His early pictures had a strong jokey element, featuring odd perspectives, rainbows and visual paradoxes. These were themes taken up in books such as Upon the Pun, Dual Meaning in Words and Pictures, produced with Paul Hammond in 1978, and Moron Oxymoron, in 1983. His pictures today are largely three dimensional in nature, experimenting with visual and verbal puns and with brilliant use of colour. Storm Fine Arts have both original paintings and prints by Patrick Hughes, which exploit in a unique manner the 3D use of space and colour to produce dynamic and vibrant perspectives of indoor and outdoor spaces. Patrick Hughes work is held by the Arts Council, Tate Gallery and the British Council. He was the second husband of the writer and artist Molly Parkin, and lives in London. |
