Above: Sophie's Red Hat:- detail of a twenty minute life drawing in watercolour & charcoal

Welcome to the Website of

Andrew Hughes

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Self-Portrait: Watercolour/Charcoal

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Email: andrewhughes242@hotmail.com 

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Embracing Hetaera: charcoal/soft pastel (2008)

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Andrew Hughes is an artist living and working in Liverpool.     Andrew has had a keen interest in drawing and painting from a very early age.   After completing an Art Foundation course at Southport College, Andrew went on to study Ceramic Sculpture at Cumbria College of Art.     After graduating in the summer of 1990, Andrew returned to Liverpool and spent several years teaching ceramics in local schools and youth centres in the role of Artist-in-Residence, before moving away from sculpture and back into drawing and painting.  ________________ Portrait of Nasreen: watercolour/charcoal      Andrew currently runs a relaxed and informal art group for artists of all abilities (students and beginners are always welcome) which is based at CHET in Little Crosby.  Andrew exhibits and sells his work in the Liverpool area.  This site features a small selection of drawings and paintings produced over the last few years.         If you have any comments to make, or would like any more information about any of the paintings featured on this website, or would be interested in joining the art group, please contact Andrew  at the Email address above . .                               Thank you for taking the time to visit my website. Fragment: Landscape (VII): Oil on watercolour paper _______________ Sole Survivor  Bowl (IV):  Reduction fired White Stoneware. [1990]     The sole surviving piece from a series of sculptures made for my final show, which took place at the RSA in London in July 1990.     This sculpture was almost two feet across from front to rear and was made from a heavily grogged white stoneware. The bowl was coil built and textured to create a petrified 'cloth-like' finish. The feet were made from single coils, which were then carved and textured to give the appearance of bone.     Washes of manganese di-oxide and a semi-matt transparent glaze were then applied after biscuit firing to enhance the carving and surface texture to create a stone/bone like effect.  The piece was then reduction fired.     The other items in this series all explored different ways of supporting  a "bowl" to give a sense of movement and/or instability.     __________________________________