About the Artist
Josie Hughes paints striking, vibrant paintings and landscapes using an impasto technique on canvas paper or board.
She is a passionate colourist who loves the drama of the human figure and the landscape around her..josies video
She first exhibited at the age of 13 when her painting ’Girl Asleep in a Chair’ was chosen for a National Exhibition of Children’s Art. Since then she has had exhibitions in Bloomsbury, Richmond, Hampton Court and recently at the re-opened Octagon gallery in Twickenham. Her work was shown by the Society of Women Artists in Pall Mall. She won an ‘Artist and Illustrator’ magazine award for her picture of ‘The Field in Autumn’ and has work in private collections in Finland, Germany, USA and Australia.
In the last year she has written and published two popular children’s books with her own water colour illustrations.
I have lived in Twickenham for over 20 years and when not painting from life I work from my studio in the garden.
Every other year I take part in the borough’s Open Studio. I taught for many years at the local College, the art department on viewing my work invited to teach art there for the last year I retired from full time work in 2008 in order to paint full time.