Hughes-Stanton attended the Byam Shaw School, 1919-22, the R.A. Schools 1922-23, and evening classes at Underwood’s Brook Green School 1921-25. A founder member of the short-lived English Wood Engraving Society in 1925, Hughes-Stanton was invited to join the Society of Wood Engravers in 1932. In 1930, with Gertrude Hermes, whom he had married in 1926, Hughes-Stanton moved to Powys to direct and engrave for the Gregynog Press. He left Gregynog in 1933 after separating from Hermes and moved to East Anglia where he founded the Gemini Press. In WW2 he was seriously injured in a POW camp and not repatriated till 1943. In later decades, Hughes-Stanton turned to using lino for colour printing and to create much larger, spectacular, images as he went increasingly abstract.