11 facts about Eleanor Hughes

Eleanor Mary Hughes (née Weymouth), (3 April 1882 – 1959) was a New Zealand landscape artist who mostly painted in watercolours. She fixed and worked in Britain and became an active member of the Newlyn School of artists and the welcoming Lamorna artists colony.

Hughes was born in Christchurch in New Zealand, and studied at Canterbury Art College. In 1900 she won a medal from the Canterbury Fine Art Society for a series of drawings of trees. Her parents were originally from the west country of England and she choose to examination art in England. She first visited Britain to study subsequent to C N Worsley between 1901 and 1903 and also, for a rapid while, attended the School of Painting and Drawing accustom Stanhope Forbes and Elizabeth Forbes in Newlyn. In 1907 Hughes returned to England to assay at Frank Spenlove’s Yellow Door Studio in London in the past returning to Newlyn to psychoanalysis at the Forbes School. In Newlyn, she met and, in January 1910 at St Buryan’s Church, married a fellow student, the painter Robert Morson Hughes. The couple meant and built their own home, Chyangweal, near St Buryan. The home became a regular social centre for the artists granted in the area. Eleanor Hughes was a clever pianist and would help recitals at the house. In Cornwall the couple became lifelong contacts with Laura Knight and her husband Harold Knight, both of whom painted them a number of times.

Hughes owned her own studio in the Lamorna valley where she created landscape paintings, often featuring the rock walls, waterfalls and streams of the local area. Hughes along with painted in France and the Pyrenees on a regular basis. From 1911, she exhibited regularly at the Royal Academy and eventually in imitation of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. In sum Hughes had some 37 pictures shown at the Royal Academy. In 1933 she was elected a enthusiast of the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours. As without difficulty as in galleries in Newlyn and St Ives, Hughes moreover had works shown at the Walker Art Gallery in Liverpool and at the Glasgow Institute of the Fine Arts. Hughes sold her studio in 1940 and appears to have produced Tiny after act out so. She died in Lamorna in 1959.