Patrick Hughes (artist)

Patrick Hughes was born in Birmingham, attended Hull Grammar School and went on to study at the James Graham Day College in Leeds in 1959.

[8]The picture surface of Vanishing Venice (above) is three-dimensional, made of two pyramids with their tops cut off protruding towards the viewer: the bases of the pyramids are farthest away (flat against the wall), while the flat tops (shown as the two lighter rectangles in the diagram, right) are those parts which are physically nearest to the viewer but which appear, in the picture, to be in the distance at the end of the buildings.

Hughes' reverspective is the subject of papers on the psychology of perception, by Nicholas Wade[9] and Thomas Papathomas of Rutgers University's Laboratory of Vision Research.

[10][11][12] More recently, Hughes has been working on a new kind of perspective he calls solid hollows where the reverspective object stands alone without a frame.

His other books are Vicious Circles and Infinity: A Panoply of Paradoxes[15] (with artist George Brecht); Upon the Pun: Dual Meaning in Words and Pictures, with Paul Hammond (London, W.H.