Edward J. Hughes

Edward J. Hugues was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1913. He studied at the Vancouver School of Applied Art and Design under the teachings of Frederich Varley and Arthur Lismer. After his military enlistment, he was chosen as a Canadian war artist from 1943 to 1946.

During the Second World War, Edward John Hughes enlisted in the Canadian army as an official painter. After six years with the Allied Forces, Hughes returned to Canada and settled in Vancouver to devote himself entirely to his artistic career. At that time, he rubbed shoulders with Lawren Harris, one of the founding members of the Group of Seven. Harris suggested that he study at the Vancouver School of Decorative and Applied Arts (now the Emily Carr Institute). Upon his return from the war, he settled in his native province and continued his artistic research by creating works of the landscapes of British Columbia. Hughes is represented by Dr. Max Stern of the Dominion Gallery in Montreal. Jack Shadbolt described Hughes as "the most engaging intuitive painter of British Columbia landscape since Emily Carr."

Following this artistic development training, Hughes undertook an expedition to the Pacific coast. He travels regularly to the Sidney and Sooke regions of British Columbia with the aim of producing "pattern-landscapes" there. These drawings constitute a central corpus in the artistic production in oil of the years to come. The corpus includes scenes from Qualicum Beach, Nanaimo Harbour, Gabriola Island, among others. As Robert Amos points out in a monograph devoted to the artist " Like [Emily] Carr, Hughes went up the [Pacific] coast. He was nurtured by what he saw on this trip, and the artwork Hughes created during the summers of 1947 and 1948, sponsored by the Emily Carr Fellowship, laid the foundation for his career."

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