John Hughes

John Hughes became interested in art at an earlier age, although his serious study of landscape painting began after military service and college. His education has consisted of informal study groups, high school and college classes, and national workshops with some of America’s foremost painters. He has been influenced by excursions into the field with other artists, many of whom he has formed lifetime friendships with. But his primary inspiration is nature itself. He believes in working from life, doing small field studies, and bringing them back into the studio as references for larger paintings. He often backpacks into the mountains with his pochade box in the true spirit of plein air painting. John’s works hang in collections throughout the United States. He exhibits regularly at the Springville, Utah, Salon and has shown his work at the Arts for the Parks Top 100 Show (1995,1996) in Jackson, Wyoming. He recently won first place in the oil division of the Best and the Brightest show at the Scotsdale, Arizona, Artists School. Others of his galleries include Williams Fine Art in the Z.C.M.I. Center Mall, Kings Cottage Gallery (both in Salt Lake City), and Meyers Gallery in Park City, Utah. One week each summer he teaches plein air painting in the Salt Lake City area through the Kings Cottage Gallery.