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Patrick Hughes

Born in 1939 Patrick Hughes had no formal art education and was largely self-taught. He became fascinated by paradoxes and visual trickery at a young age. He sheltered from the German bombs during the second world war under the staircase of his grandparents house, and was riveted by what a staircase looks like from underneath- the reversal of it's normal self. From 1964 to 1969 he was Senior Lecturer in Painting and Drawing at Leeds. His first solo show was at the Portal Gallery in London in 1961. He has held several one-man shows particularly at the Angela Flowers Gallery and has participated in various group exhibitions in the UK and Europe. His work is in several private and public collections including the British Council, the Victoria & Albert Museum and the Print Collection at the Tate Gallery. In 1979 he won first prize at the Tolly Cobbold/Eastern Art National Exhibitions. His first one-man exhibition in New York was held at the Edward Weston Gallery in Soho in 1983.

In the 1970s and 80s Patrick Hughes was inspired by rainbows, 'A rainbow is a transitory event composed of water, air and light. I tried to give it a mass, permanence and personality.' Hughes rainbows are the reverse of the romantic: hard-edged, leaning against walls, emerging from dustbins, posted through letter-boxes. They exemplify those qualities in art which he cherishes above all: the paradoxical, the absurd,the magical and the poetic. Hughes' surrealistic leanings have been influenced by artists such as Paul Klee, Marcel Duchamp and Rene Magritte.

Patrick Hughes is also a writer and philosopher having published three books on wordplay such as More on Oxymoron (1984). More recently Hughes has become renowned for his reverspective work, these works have been exhibited in London, New York, Santa Monica, Seoul, Chicago, Munich and Toronto. These reverse perspective works are three-dimensional and play with perspective through the reversal of concave and convex. He lives and works in East London.

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Patrick Hughes Prints

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Hearty
512 mm X 712 mm
£ 975.00
Cloudy II
712 mm X 512 mm
£ 975.00
Lifesaver
650 mm X 400 mm
Sold Out
Cloudy
615 mm X 435 mm
£ 1,000.00

Love Letters
380 mm X 560 mm
£ 765.00
One Up
570 mm X 760 mm
£ 590.00
Inside Out
357 mm X 510 mm
£ 710.00
A Night of Love
435 mm X 435 mm
£ 975.00

Splash of Colours
895 mm X 587 mm
£ 769.00
Print of Prints
878 mm X 550 mm
£ 710.00
Confetti
420 mm X 560 mm
£ 885.00
Paper Roses
430 mm X 580 mm
£ 1,150.00

Rainbows on a Train-
790 mm X 490 mm
£ 885.00
Colour Process
400 mm X 575 mm
£ 590.00
Double Vision
400 mm X 600 mm
£ 590.00