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.