Artist: Patrick Hughes
Title: Wet Rainbow
Year: 1979
Medium: screenprint
Dimensions: 75 x 57.7
Accession Number: 187
Acquisition info: Purchase.
Hughes work explores perception and illusion. In the 60s and 70s he developed his ‘rainbow’ series “A rainbow is a transitory event composed of water, air and light. I tried to give it a mass, permanence and personality.” He is also well known for inventing the ‘reverspective’ a type of 3D painting or print which offers an optical illusion to a viewer moving past.