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Ken Hughes obituary
Ken Hughes was head of the sculpture department at Bath Academy of Art, where he taught from 1965 to 1985
Ken Hughes was head of the sculpture department at Bath Academy of Art, where he taught from 1965 to 1985
TimHughes
Wed 30 Dec 2020 12.33 EST
Last modified on Fri 15 Jan 2021 18.21 EST
My father, Ken Hughes, who has died aged 93, was a sculptor and lecturer.
His speciality was extremely lifelike and well observed portrait heads. But he also explored other ways of making sculpture, using colour in a long series of works that were often reminiscent of scenes in plays and which, stylistically, owed much to German Expressionist painters such as Paul Klee and Max Beckmann and contemporary painters such as Frank Auerbach and Francis Bacon.