Biography Ann d’Arcy Hughes

“My work is essentially about life as I experience it and the world I see about me.” In fact, Anne’s work is admired for the magical, ethereal worlds her etchings conjure. A world full of guiding angels, journeys across imaginary seas and cats dozing within metaphorical visual juxtapositions which take the viewer to a spiritual unworldly place which is nevertheless strangely familiar.

For Anne, the printmaking medium provides the versatility she craves via the markings and colours. She uses etching, metal engraving, drypoint, collograph, lithography

Background:
Lanchester College of Art Coventry
Stockholm School of Art Sweden
University of Brighton
Assistant to Anthony Gross at Slade School of Art University of London

At present:
Lecturer in Printmaking University of Brighton. (since 1971)
Brighton Independent Printmaking. (BIP) In April 2000 I founded and co-direct an open access print workshop, dedicated to the production and promotion of original prints as a fine art medium.