Hugh has taught thousands of adults & children the skills of watercolour painting.

He is artist in residence at Bury art gallery, and has taught at Manchester city art gallery. Awarded ‘Outstanding’ from Ofsted, he has taught throughout the UK, the USA, Istanbul, and for Cunard aboard the QE2. His work as an inspirational teacher of watercolour painting was described as ‘remarkable’ in the Times Educational Supplement. Recently interviewed by Sir James Ratcliffe’s Ineos magazine alongside the Princess of Wales Kate Middleton on the importance of art in schools & as a recreational therapy for adults.

Hugh is following in the footsteps of his Great Great Grandparents Robert & Elizabeth Templeton who in the 1890’s moved around the north-west with their travelling music hall theatre. Today (as it is in his DNA) Hugh travels the north west and beyond with his watercolour workhops.