

About
Despite being largely self-taught, Patrick Hughes devised a unique and intricate style of painting known as ‘reverspective’ which has been widely admired (and sometimes copied). Hughes’s signature 3D paintings of galleries, streets and landscapes are designed so that viewers can interact with them to create incredible optical illusions of movement. He made his first work in this way in 1964, but then abandoned the process until 1990, instead making art works including a famous series of rainbows, in which the bands of light hung from washing lines, seeped through prison-esque windows or sat on plates like slices of melon.
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Editions
Patrick Hughes
Special Shelves
POA | £40,000 – £80,000
See Details- 2020
- Oil on board construction
- Original
- Signed by the artist
- 20cm x 80cm x 65cm
Patrick Hughes
Maeght
£7,200
See Details- 2019
- Hand-painted multiple with archival inkjet
- Edition 75
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- 17cm x 90cm x 45cm
Patrick Hughes
Mondrainbow
£600
See Details- 2018
- Archival pigment print on paper
- Edition of 50
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- 49cm x 60cm
Patrick Hughes
Banksee
£7,000
See Details- 2019
- Hand painted multiple with archival inkjet
- Artist Proof of 10
- Signed by the artist
- 17cm x 102cm x 44cm
Patrick Hughes
In Amazement
POA | £40,000 – £80,000
See Details- 2020
- Oil on board construction
- Original
- Signed by the artist
- 21cm x 80cm x 65cm
Patrick Hughes
Robotic
£4,800
See Details- 2020
- Hand-painted multiple with archival inkjet
- Edition 60
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- 16cm x 53cm x 51cm
Patrick Hughes
Palette
£600
See Details- 2018
- Archival pigment print on paper
- Edition of 30
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- 49cm x 59cm
Patrick Hughes
Shopping
POA | £10,000 – £20,000
See Details- 2020
- Oil on board construction
- Original
- Signed by the artist
- 9cm x 37cm x 31cm
Patrick Hughes
Roundbow
£600
See Details- 2018
- Archival pigment print on paper
- Edition of 50
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- 65cm x 66cm
Patrick Hughes
Cry Me A River
£600
See Details- 2018
- Archival pigment print on paper
- Edition of 50
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- 47cm x 59cm
Patrick Hughes
Web Bow
£600
See Details- 2018
- Archival pigment print on paper
- Edition of 50
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- 47cm x 59cm
Patrick Hughes
Please
£600
See Details- 2019
- Archival pigment print on paper
- Edition of 50
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- 49cm x 68cm
Patrick Hughes
Aesthetic
POA | Over £80,000
See Details- 2020
- Oil on board construction
- Original
- Signed by the artist
- 21cm x 146cm x 67cm
Patrick Hughes
Palazzina
£4,800
See Details- 2019
- Hand-painted multiple with archival inkjet
- Edition 75
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- 17cm x 63cm x 46cm
Patrick Hughes
In and Out
£7,200
See Details- 2019
- Hand-painted and photographic multiple with archival inkjet
- Edition 75
- Signed and numbered by the artist
- 20cm x 105cm x 46cm
Did you know?
Subjects for Hughes’s reverspectives include giant, coffee-tables books, Banksy-adorned brick walls, and landscapes of Venetian palaces.
Country of Birth
UK
Auction Record
£98,500
Christie's, 'For the Venice Biennale', 2015
Notable Collections
The British Library, London, UK
Tate, London, UK
Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA
Würth Museum, Künzelsau, Germany
Notable Exhibitions
Solo Retrospective, Art Chicago, Chicago, USA, 2004
Reverspective, Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scottland, 1998
Patrick Hughes: Moving Spaces, Osthaus Museum, Hagen, Germany, 2015
Exhibitions by Patrick Hughes
Hang-Up Curates | Vol. I
Banksy, Bridget Riley, Harland Miller, José Parlá, Swoon, The Connor Brothers, Tim Fishlock, Patrick Hughes,
Nov 2, 2020 – Nov 25, 2020
Patrick Hughes News

Meet The Artist
Artists to Watch | 2021
Jan 3, 2021

Meet The Artist
5 Questions with | Patrick Hughes
Nov 12, 2020