Patrick Hughes 'Dancing' Print Available

Artist: Patrick Hughes
Title: Dancing
Medium: Multi Color Screen Print
Size: 24 x 31.5 Inches
Edition: 50
Price: £900

 

Patrick Hughes, born in Birmingham, England, in 1939, is a painter best known as the pioneer of reverspective, or reverse perspective, a form of 3D art that plays with spatial perception. Although sometimes confused with a Canadian hockey player or filmmaker of the same name, the artist Patrick Hughes works primarily in London. He creates three-dimensional, painted structures, often using truncated pyramids and wedges, which are designed to trick the human eye. The key to his technique is that the parts of the image that seem farthest away are physically closest to the viewer, while the closer-seeming areas are further away, creating a paradoxical, moving image.

Following his studies at the James Graham Day College and a period teaching at the Leeds College of Art, Hughes held his first solo exhibition in London in 1961. In 1964, he developed his first reverspective work, titled Sticking out Room. This early work explored the potential for shifting perspectives, and over the following decades, he refined this technique, often using themes of architecture, libraries, and art history to explore these illusions.

His work is famously interactive; as the spectator moves in front of the artwork, the scene appears to move along with them, reversing the natural perception of perspective. Hughes’s paintings are featured in prestigious public collections, including the Tate Gallery and the British Library. He is also a writer and has explored the themes of paradoxes in art through several publications. His work continues to be exhibited internationally and offers a unique, often humorous insight into how humans perceive the world, bridging the gap between art and the science of perception.