Painter and teacher, born in Barnard Castle, County Durham. He studied at Winchester School of Art, West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham and at Chelsea School of Art. Went on to teach at Chelsea and at colleges in the northeast of England. He was a member of the Newcastle Group of artists and was included in South Bank Centre’s touring show of 1988–9, The Presence of Painting. One-man shows included Galerie Brigitte Hilger, Aachen, 1983; Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, and Bede Gallery, Jarrow, 1985; and Galerie Hoffman, Friedberg, 1987. Reacting against free, gestural painting surrounding him at art school in the 1970s Hugonin sought a style by which he could create work balanced “between extreme complexity of means on the one hand and the apparent simplicity of the overall image on the other”.