O dark dark dark, etching, 2011, ed. 5

19 x 15 in 48 x 38cm

£474

PHILIP HUGHES     

                        BIOGRAPHY

1936               Born London, UK

1957               Honours Degree, Cambridge University, UK

1957-61         Engineer with Shell International Petroleum Company

1961-69         Computer Consultant with Scicon Limited

1969-91         Co-Founder of Logica plc, Managing Director 1969-72,
                        Chairman 1972-91

1975-76         Spent year travelling and painting in Andean countries of South America and in Provence in South France

1981               Extensive trek in Western Himalayas to visit Kingdom of Zanskar
                        Visit to Uluru and Olgas in Australia

1982               Visit to pre-Columbian sites in Mexico, particularly Palenque and Monte Alban

1984               Took part in protest in Southwest Tasmania against proposed damming of Franklin River and flooding of virgin temperate rainforest
                        Paintings exhibited in London to give further publicity to cause

1987-92         Member of the Council of the Royal College of Art

1987               Walked the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu in Peru
                        Paintings exhibited later that year

1990-96         Member of Board of Design Museum, London

1993               Mural commission for the new Quaglino’s Restaurant, London

1995               Extensive visit to the north of Western Australia, Kimberley and                                                 the Bungle Bungles

1996-00         Chairman, Board of Trustees of the National Gallery, London

1997               Lithograph illustrations for Carmen Boullosa’s epic poem The Elysian Garden:  limited edition produced on site at Taller Magenta, Monterrey, Mexico. Subsequently exhibited at museums in Mexico

1998               Patterns in the Landscape:  The Notebooks of Philip Hughes published by Thames & Hudson, with forward by Glenn Murcutt

2000-02         Trustee of The National Gallery, London

1. Visiting Artist to Antarctica with the British Antarctic Survey for two months

1. Illustrated the artist’s book ‘Jump of the Manta Ray’, a long poem by Carmen Boullosa, translated by Psiche Hughes, and published by the Old School Press, UK

1. Extensive work in the Northern Highlands of Scotland

2007-08         Project to do large drawings on site of the major stone circles of Scotland and England
                       
2009-10         Working in collaboration with archaeologists researching in Orkney

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