Franz Kafka is one of a series of paintings of the writer by Hughes. 

Ian Hughes, 1958-2014

Hughes was born in Glasgow and trained at Duncan Jordanstone College of Art in Dundee from 1976 to 1980. Awarded a travelling scholarship, he visited Amsterdam in 1980. For the next two years he worked in the art therapy of Glasgow's Stobhill Hospital, and for several years was employed as a psychiatric nurse while continuing to paint. For nine months in 1988-89 he served as Artist-in-Residence at the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and in 1991-92 was Artist-in-Residence at the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. Hughes's painting, which chronicles human anguish and pain, is founded on the traditions of Rembrandt, Velázquez and Goya, but he has been influenced also by Edvard Munch, Van Gogh, John Bellany and Francis Bacon.