ANNETTE PUGH

Birmingham based artist Annette Pugh explores notions of restlessness and uncertain moments within her work. Fascinated by archive photography, Annette often references subjects and locations which are at once both familiar and yet anonymous. Concepts relating to leisure, longing, and absence imbue her practice and solitude and solace are ever present in recent paintings. These investigate a meditative and powerful sense of place, and notions of fate. 
Annette writes, ‘The idea that as an artist, you can immerse the viewer in a location through colour and brush marks, and express an intense intimacy with the landscape, is a powerful achievement.’

Annette Pugh Biography

Over the course of her career Annette Pugh has exhibited extensively, published articles, and received various grants and funding for the development of her own practice and teaching initiatives. Her work has been purchased for public spaces and private collections and she has been awarded an MA in Fine Art and an MA in Art and Design Histories.

Most recently, Annette has undertaken a major commissioned show, ‘Happenstance’ at The New Art Gallery Walsall, exploring our emotional connection to landscape.
Annette has exhibited widely including exhibitions at RWA Bristol, Mall Galleries and RBSA, Birmingham, where she was an elected member, curator, and council member for many years. Annette has also taken part in prestigious Art Fairs in London and the regions and completed a series of university residencies, placing a focus on printmaking and photography and the significance of their impact upon her painting. Her solo show, 'Somewhere Never Travelled', hosted at Reuben Colley Fine Art in 2017 was followed, in 2018 by ‘Ornament’ and ‘Verdant’ in 2019.