Hannah Pugh has worked as an internationally collected artist for 20 years, interspersing her career with teaching and motherhood. She studied at Falmouth College of Art graduating with a BA (hons) in Fine Art, and has exhibited and sold at venues around the country, with many of her art works residing with private collectors.
Hannah has also creatively collaborated with companies such as Estee Lauder and Taiping, as well as working closely with art consultants worldwide; adding her inimitable alchemical style to interiors across the globe.
To enquire about her availability for commissions and licensing of artwork, please contact her through her website www.allisnotlostart.com or email allisnotlost.art@gmail.com
Through the use of inks, watercolours, bleach and gilding, Hannah’s paintings can be said to reference earthly horizons, although are invoked from memory, imagination and otherworlds. Snatches of memory, sensation and intuition play out their enchantments across the surfaces of raw canvas and paper, conspiring to tell stories of place and wonder. An ongoing love-affair with the coast provides a fickle palette of ever changing light and dramatic interplay between expansive oceans and vast skies.
Hannah paints, draws, designs, gilds, reads, daydreams; continuing her search for Elsewhere in the studio at the bottom of her garden in Alvechurch.
“I’m concerned with our need to connect and fill the space between places and ideas; the slippery feeling when you try to focus on the enormity of abstract ideas such as infinity, the sublime, magic, and the viscerality they invoke; awe, wonder and enchantment...
The idea of liminality - a place between, a threshold, a place of ambiguity or disorientation, conjures itself up in a lot of my paintings as the horizon. Circles appear that might symbolise the cyclical nature of being, and taking lessons from Japanese art’s composition, what’s left out of the picture is just, if not more, important than what is - because the cracks are where the light gets in - obviously.
I’m fascinated by the secrets and stories that are all around us; the magic that connects us to the oceans and the earth and the skies; and all therein that lies. The microcosms and macrocosms that echo each other throughout the universe; bubbling up in the gaps and flinging swathes across an inky sky - the patterns and shapes and symbols that repeat and reveal themselves, the shadows that flicker at the everchanging edges - the edge of anywhere is a strange and beautiful place.
Whilst the places I paint belong to the realms of somewhere and nowhere, they have all become part of a larger place, which I’ve come to think of as Elsewhere.
Always changing with the light of a new hour, day, season or mood. I want you to become lost in your artwork, follow your own story and find your own space.”