Patrick Hughes (b. 1939) is a British artist and the pioneer and inventor of reverspective. His first solo show was held in Mayfair, London, in 1961, with a catalogue introduction by the critic David Sylvester; he has since held one-person exhibitions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston and New York, and across Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Holland, Belgium and Switzerland, two hundred shows so far. Hughes made his first reverspective relief painting in 1964, a technique using reversed wooden pyramids that gives the illusion of space folding toward the viewer, refined and widely imitated over more than fifty years. In 2014 the University of London granted him a Doctor of Science for his contribution to the psychology of perception, and his work is held by the Tate, the British Library and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, among other institutions.