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Daniel Hughes
Gavin - grey, yellow, young male, figurative, portrait, oil, collage on canvas

2019

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This collage and mixed media portrait by Dan Hughes captures a moment in the young life of a child. Realistically rendered the figure is framed in warm grey, pale blue and yellow. In his paintings, Hughes employs neoclassical techniques that he developed and practiced in Florence with the Ontario College of Art. He completed an MFA at New York Academy of Art in 1995. Hughes received the Elizabeth Greenshields Award for Figurative Art in 1991 and 1995. He has had solo shows throughout Canada, England and the US, and was part of a prestigious group show at The National Portrait Gallery in London (2005). He was shortlisted for the British Portrait Prize in 2012, was shortlisted for the Canadian Portrait Prize in 2015 and received Honorable mention at the Kingston Portrait Prize in 2017.
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