Nigel Hughes attended the Royal Academy Schools in London as a guest student between 1977 and 1981, having previously been the National Trust’s land agent in Northern Ireland.
Starting in 1982 he made a series of 40 large watercolours of Maya monuments in Mexico, Guatemala, Belize and Honduras, the product of 4 field trips. These were exhibited at the National Art Club, New York and the Museo Nacional de Antropología in Mexico.
