‘SPLASH OF COLOURS’ IS A LIMITED EDITION SILKSCREEN PRINT BY POP ART ARTIST, PATRICK HUGHES

Price on application

Limited edition of 20 – a very small & rare edition

Silkscreen print

107×77.7cm

1982

Signed by artist

Rainbows were key to Hughes’ exploration of visual paradox:

‘People did not understand my rainbows. A rainbow is a fugitive temporary thing, a sign for a rare and passing event, so I made it permanent, trapped it, and made it cast a shadow—and so on. I continually contradicted it. I saw the irony in the pinning down of this butterfly.’

Charming and whimsical, and highly representative of Hughes work in the 80s.