 She first visited Britain to study with C N Worsley between 1901 and 1903 and also, for a short while, attended the School of Painting and Drawing run by Stanhope Forbes and Elizabeth Forbes in Newlyn.In 1907 Hughes returned to England to study at Frank Spenlove's "Yellow Door Studio" in London before returning to Newlyn to study at the Forbes School.In Newlyn, she met and, in January 1910 at St Buryan's Church, married a fellow student, the painter Robert Morson Hughes.