
Palette
Patrick Hughes - 2019
- Archival Pigment on Somerset Satin 330gsm paper
- Limited Edition of 50
- 23.38 x 19.48 in image size on 17 x 13.58 in paper size
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Patrick Hughes’ Palette is a clever and radiant meditation on creativity itself. A wooden artist’s palette, complete with daubs of paint, becomes pierced by a rainbow that arcs across a vivid blue sky. The composition turns the tools of the artist into an extension of imagination, where color is not simply applied to canvas but flows directly from nature’s most dazzling spectrum.
The imagery suggests a seamless union between art and the world it reflects, blurring the boundaries between painter and subject. The rainbow, often a symbol of hope and transcendence, here becomes a literal medium of creation, channeling wonder into tangible form. Printed with archival pigments on Somerset Satin paper, the work preserves Hughes’ signature precision and luminous color, ensuring depth and brilliance that resonate with collectors.
Palette is both playful and profound, inviting reflection on the act of making art as an endless dialogue between perception, invention, and joy.
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About the artist

Patrick held his first solo show in 1961 at the Portal Gallery, London. It was the first one-man show by a Pop Artist, though they were not even called that then. Three and four years later, Hughes made two seminal reverse perspective works, Infinity and Sticking-out Room. But in the 1970s Hughes’ name became synonymous with rainbow paintings, which also became very popular as prints and as postcards; people enjoyed them as decoration, but for Hughes the rainbow represented a solidified experience.
In the late 1980s Hughes revisited exploiting the difference between perspective and reverspective and making space, frozen but mobile. For the last 25 years his 3-D reverspective paintings have been hughesually in demand, exhibited around the world and featured in many public collections. The experience of seeing a Patrick Hughes sculptured painting in reality is really to experience unreality and the paradox of illusory space and movement.