artprint, $16.00 each. Image size 9¾" x 11¾".
Also available: blockmounted $35.00
or framed $145.00 (double mat & wood frame, approximate outside measurement 17" x 20")

I quote from the book: "In Looking West over Quamichan Lake, Hughes employed foreground elements, the foliage at the upper right, and the fence and grasses (with one flowering plant) at the bottom, to establish a visual immediacy, but his real challenge was to make the extensive middle ground interesting.

The lake itself is in the distance and the "subject" of the work is the play of light on the fields. The almost obsessive attention to detail is visible in the brushstrokes that represent grasses and other plants. The broad expanse, which reads horizontally, is balanced by the more distant striped field, which reads vertically. This is a superb example of Hughes seeing visual interest where most of us would see nothing of merit.

The fact that he concentrates our attention on the field of grass rather than the more picturesque elements of the composition reveals his ongoing interest in challenging his own and the viewer's perceptions of beauty in the world.

Hughes produced many watercolours throughout the 1990s, and continues to do so. Most are superb reworkings of earlier subject matter."

The gate in the foreground is on Maple Bay Road. In the background is Mt. Prevost which dominates the Cowichan valley near Duncan on Vancouver Island.

For more information, or to place an order send e-mail to Pacific Outlook/Excellent FrameWorks, or use the Secure Order Form.

I can also be reached at Excellent FrameWorks by phone, 250-746-7112, between 10am and 5:30pm Pacific time, Monday through Friday and between 10 and 4 on Saturdays.

return to E. J. Hughes index page

return to Pacific Outlook/Excellent FrameWorks index page