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Robert Alwyn Hughes

His father worked at Bedlinog Colliery and had a love of Welsh literary classics.

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Hughes's childhood memories continue to have an impact upon his artwork, with numerous references to Welsh landscape and culture, especially that of the south Wales valleys and Dowlais Top and Caeharris in particular: As a child he would regularly explore the local rugged landscape outside his back-door, just below the Brecon Beacons.

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The family’s first language at home was Welsh until young Robert began attending the Dowlais Central School at five years old (when he began using English).

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