Nigel Hughes - Artist Info

About Nigel Hughes

  • Biography

    Nigel Hughes FLS, FRGS, born in 1940, has long been interested in the family Cracidae, New World equivalent of the pheasant, comprising curassows, guans, and chachalacas. Over eighteen field trips, Mr Hughes studied and painted them together with their natural habitat, which is how the birds are depicted, life-size, in these characterful paintings. The works on offer here were exhibited at the Museum of Natural History of Oxford University, in 2003. Mr Hughes has also exhibited at Missouri Botanic Garden, Houston Museum of Natural Science in Texas, and the Fine Art Society in London.

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