Tom Hughes paints from life. When working in his studio, Tom paints still lifes, experimenting with colour, light and piles of studio clutter. When painting outdoors, he braves all weathers and works across the South West, including in Bristol, and in London.

Tom was born in Colchester and raised in Oxfordshire. He began his career as an illustrator before switching to painting in 2012 when the lure of oils became too much. Tom exhibits regularly at the Mall Galleries in London and has been selected for numerous prestigious prizes, including the BP Portrait Prize, the Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize and The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. In 2014 he won the Benton Purchase prize at the Discerning Eye and in 2015 he won both the Smallwood Architects Prize at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters and the prestigious critic’s prize at the New English Art Club.

The Artists & Illustrators magazine says of Tom, "he has quickly established himself as one of the UK’s most promising young painters.”

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