About the Artwork

Look closely into Anna Pugh's detailed paintings and you will discover hidden detail and quirky amusements. Maybe a leg entering from the left of the image or leaving from the right – where are they going? What is beyond the picture? Within each picture are multiple stories unfolding. Spot a fox being chased from a henhouse. A seagull sunbathing beside an ornately decorate sand castle, the glimpse of somebody dancing in a cabin on stilts. The more you look the more you see. Anna Pugh captures everything right down to the myriad of bugs and insects going about their business amongst the rich array flora. Anna Pugh's paintings, like those of Richard Dadd and Howard Hodgkins, show the commonplace enlivened by touches of the surreal. Few artists equal her ability to record natural phenomena and to invigorate it with such persuasive illusion. They have the freshness and irreverent vitality of life lived close to nature. They are pictures that people enjoy living with, recording the countryside; the flora and fauna and the changing seasons.

About the Artist

The painter Anna Pugh, born 1938, is admired as a colourist and storyteller. Her original paintings are highly sought after and are in private collections in Great Britain, Europe and North America.

In earlier days when she and her brother were released from their boarding school strait-jackets, they spent hours ‘butterflying, bonfiring and slopping about with jam jars and nets at the edge of the lake’.  The enjoyable side of their life was spent outside and free.  That liberty and enjoyment permeate her paintings. Anna Pugh is inspired by the Sussex countryside where she lives, each changing season has its own fleeting panoramas.  In turn the flourish of spring bluebells give way to summer roses, when the roses fade, autumn’s copper tones glow until frosts glisten under the rising winter sun.  These transient moments invigorate Anna Pugh’s pictures.

“The best joy in my garden is when it buzzes with bees and flies and lacewings and beetles; when the marjoram is alive with things crawling and hopping and flying.  I think insects are the stuff of life.  I would love to know what invisible things the sparrows are picking up on the brick terrace in the sun.”

We hope you enjoy viewing our collection of Anna Pugh signed limited edition prints.