Watercolour painting of a weathered timber outbuilding at Tattingstone, Suffolk, with lilac blossom and dappled morning light

Black and white photograph of East End market traders, London, late 1970s

Suffolk, UK

Hugh Bothwell

Watercolour paintings and photography

Hugh Bothwell’s work brings together two lifelong practices — photography and watercolour — in a body of work defined by attention, restraint, and patience.

Selected Watercolours

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Watercolour painting of a timber lych-gate at a churchyard in Ipswich, Suffolk, with sunlight through overhanging trees

Tower Churchyard, Ipswich Watercolour

Watercolour painting of low cloud over moorland rocks at Foel Eryr, Pembrokeshire, Wales

Low Cloud on Foel Eryr Watercolour — Pembrokeshire

“My paintings are worked from my own photographs, but they are never simply a copy.”
Hugh Bothwell

Selected Photography

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Black and white photograph of a snack bar on a street corner in Whitechapel, East London, late 1970s, with figures gathered outside

Whitechapel Photography — East End, late 1970s

Black and white photograph of a swan crossing an empty industrial road, with a roadside advertising billboard in the background

Why Did the Swan Cross the Road Photography

Colour photograph of a train at Westerfield Junction signal box, Suffolk, with a signalman exchanging a token, taken in the late 1970s

A Suffolk Railway, Late 1970s

A quiet record of stations and signal boxes since vanished.

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Black and white photograph of a swan crossing an empty road, by Hugh Bothwell

About the Artist

Hugh Bothwell is an amateur watercolour artist based in Suffolk, UK, whose work is closely connected to a lifelong involvement in photography. Working from his own photographs, he creates paintings that are not simply copies, but careful reinterpretations.

For enquiries, please get in touch.

hello@hughbothwell.co.uk