His prizes include the Davison Award from the Royal Society of British Artists and the Best Emerging Artist Prize and Viewers Choice Award from the Royal West of England Academy. Ben’s work is included in numerous private collections including that of Standard Chartered Bank and the University of Oxford.

Cowboy series:

“My Western painting are not so much about the toys and the narrative (although they are that too) but what they represent – the dreams of childhood and an eventual and inevitable loss of innocence. More than this maybe, they aren’t just about one child, but society as a whole and its constant failure to live up to its ideal.” – Ben Hughes