As a Jacksonville, Florida native and 8-year resident of Taos, New Mexico, living in the colorful southwest has inspired Hugh’s creative sensibilities and helped to define his artistic career. While in the southwest, Hugh became very intrigued with the powerful impact of ancient Indian rock art or "petroglyphs." The primitive portrayal of humans and animals on rock faces, overhangs along the Rio Grande and other desert locations has conjured a rich mental imagery of our early civilized beginnings. He became enthralled with the efforts of these early artists, and the transcendent beauty they captured in their work.

As an artist, Hugh has sought to recreate the human form in its raw state, to move closer to a 21st Century petroglyph. There is something irresistible in the guttural elegance that these shapes portray. Over the past 15 years he has developed a printing technique that involves painting and printing people’s naked bodies in combination with digital art methods to achieve this result. Most recently, the merging of photographic elements within his “modern petroglyphs” is an evolutionary force within his art. Hugh believes the artist and art lover each benefit from this marriage of brush stroke and new technology.