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Culture: Master of illusion; Terry Grimley meets Patrick Hughes, master of perplexing perspectives.(Features)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20020507
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Byline: Terry Grimley

Patrick Hughes's paintings have been installed on the walls of Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery, but the artist is anxious to get the lighting just right.

'A religious light is a dim light',' he says, quoting Victorian atheist Samuel Butler and emphasising that he wants just the opposite.

Hughes's 'sticking-out' pictures give viewers a powerful and disconcerting illusion of peering into real 3-D spaces. He wants them brightly lit, with crisp edges, but without shadows that give the game away.

For what you are actually seeing when you look at ...

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