Robert Alwyn Hughes

Finding inspiration for his work both at home in the Welsh countryside and its traditions, and a more diverse range of cultural and historical moments. Hughes's work is a striking example of the ability to merge ideas and imagery from a variety of sources. The subject matter and narrative belongs to the past, but the imagery to the present day.

"Robert Alwyn Hughes provides a visual narrative through which he presents his own contemporary interpretation. As with all of his work the pieces are bold and often disquieting and create a fascinating melting pot, raising the question of how these varying cultural contexts at once question and inform each other. A hybrid of traditional and contemporary material and ethereal, symbolic and real, demonstrates the power of the image to speak in ways which are fresh, bold and challenging.

Hughes suggests that transcribed, the paintings are about symbolic fantasies, where resemblance is exchanged for dissemblance, appearance for disappearance and the material exchanged for the
...'indistinct breath of the image'.

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'Entry of the Elect into Paradise'

'They Speak with Tongues'

'I sing the Body Electric'

'Expulsion'

'Y Marchogion' composite

'Study 1 - They Speak with Tongues'

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