Whimsical, visually engaging, surprisingly familiar, Patrick Hughes’ wall reliefs are unusual hybrids of painting and sculpture, witty ruminations on the history of art, perspective and Surrealism. Playing with perspective, optical illusions, and figure-ground relationships the artist creates engaging tromp l’oeil sceneries that confound our senses. As the viewer moves around his carefully crafted paintings, the perspective of these “impossible objects” changes continuously inviting curious introspection.

This world-renowned British artist lives in London and has also written numerous books on visual and verbal rhetoric. Hughes’ paintings have earned international acclaim as part of exhibitions in the United Kingdom, Russia, Korea, United States, and Canada and prestigious museum collections such as the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London.

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