Patrick Hughes (b. 1939, Birmingham) is a British artist best known for his groundbreaking “reverspective” works—painted 3D constructions that challenge perception by appearing to move as the viewer shifts position. After studying at Leeds College of Art, Hughes held his first solo show in 1961, and by the 1960s had developed his early experiments with optical illusion and paradox.
His signature style, developed from the 1970s onwards, uses forced perspective to create mind-bending architectural scenes that play with space and depth. Hughes has also produced surreal rainbow works and written several books on visual and verbal paradox, including Vicious Circles and Infinity and Paradoxymoron.
Hughes’s work is held in major institutions such as the Tate, the V&A, and the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. He continues to live and work in London, where he opened his own gallery in 2018.
Journeys by Patrick Hughes (British, born 1939)
$5,900
3D lithographic multiple with hand-colouring, 2000, signed in pencil, numbered P.P. 1/3, a printer's proof aside from the edition of forty, published by Flowers Gallery, London, printed and hand-coloured by Jack Shirreff at the 107 Workshop. In Perspex box. (88cm w x 42cm h x 17cm d)
Purchased from Christies, London.