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Born in 1939 Patrick Hughes had no formal art education and was largely self-taught. From 1946 to 1969 he was Senior Lecturer in Painting and Drawing at Leeds. He has held several one-man shows particularly at the Angela Flowers Gallery and has participated in various group exhibitions in the UK and Europe. His work is in several private and public collections including the British Council the Victoria & Albert Museum and in the Print Collection at the Tate Gallery he has two works entitled "Brick Door" 1967 and "Infinity" 1976. In 1979 he won first prize at the Tolly Cobbold/Eastern Art National Exhibitions. His most recent one-man show was at the Angela Flowers Gallery and he has recently had enormous success during a tour of North America. His first one-man exhibition in New York is being held at the Edward Weston Gallery in SoHo in Fall of 1983. Hughes present work - painting and prints - is devoted to the rainbow that most romantic of images but predictably Hughes rainbows are the reverse of the romantic. Hard-edged leaning against walls emerging from dustbins posted through letter-boxes they exemplify those qualities in art which he cherishes above all the paradoxical the absurd the magical and the poetic.