Artist Patrick Hughes was born in Birmingham, England in October 1939. His first exhibition was in 1961. “Hughes' work is full of irony. By creating a world solidified into perspective he makes pictures that come alive before our eyes. In the myth of the sculptor Pygmalion makes a stone woman, whom Aphrodite brings to life as Galatea. Hughes makes wooden lumps of space and you bring them to life by looking at them. It is sculpted painting, solid space” (Murray McDonald, April 2002).