NIGEL HUGHES (b.1940)
Nigel Hughes attended the Royal Academy Schools under the keepership of the late Peter Greenham and since then has exhibited in London, Scotland, Ireland, Belgium, New York and Mexico.
His work is included in the collections of Their Royal Highnesses the Prince of Wales and the Princess Alexandra, the Grenadier Guards, the Tower of London and many others.
Towards the end of a period of work on pre-Columbian monuments in Mexico and Central America, Nigel Hughes became interested in the bird family Cracidae, which includes 35 curassows and guans, most of them endangered. They are large birds which fill an important place in their neo-tropical forest systems. Habitat loss and hunting have reduced many species to pitifully low numbers: one species now numbers less than 30. The paintings involve travel to the birds' haunts, which range from northern Argentina and Mexico.
Nigel Hughes (b.1940)
Three Great Curassows (Crax Rubra)
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Nigel Hughes (b.1940)
Three Great Curassows (Crax Rubra)
signed and dated 'NIGEL/HUGHES/1991' (lower left)
oil on canvas
35 x 45in. (89 x 114cm.)
Three Great Curassows (Crax Rubra)
signed and dated 'NIGEL/HUGHES/1991' (lower left)
oil on canvas
35 x 45in. (89 x 114cm.)