Hannah Pugh
Hannah Pugh Original Artwork
Hannah Pugh is a Worcestershire‑based contemporary painter whose work explores liminality, celestial patterning, and the quiet, potent spaces that exist between memory and imagination. Working with ink, bleach, watercolour, and precious metal leaf on raw canvas and heavy papers, she creates atmospheric compositions that hover between landscape and dreamscape, portals into a personal Elsewhere.
Her process is intricate, intuitive, and deeply layered: drawing, painting, gilding, scraping, piercing, printing, and piecing together fragments. Each work grows organically as she watches her materials move, react, and surprise her. Hannah describes her paintings as “spaces and places to fill with stories and maybes”, speculative environments that reference earthly horizons, skies, and oceans, yet are invoked from memory, sensation, and imagined terrain. They are ellipses in visual form: unfinished thoughts, narrative omissions, the spaces between.
Her work is shaped by a fascination with awe and the unknown. As writer Katherine May observes, “Feeling awe cracks us open. It is a vulnerable experience; it softens us in a time when it’s so easy to harden.” Hannah’s paintings lean into that softness, the quiet, expansive feeling of standing before something larger than yourself. They shift physically and emotionally each time they’re viewed, reflecting and absorbing light and dark, inviting the viewer to linger, interpret, and find their own resonance within the work.
Influenced by Romanticists such as Friedrich, Abstract Expressionists like Rothko, and the mythic world‑building of Tolkien and Le Guin, Hannah collects words, ideas, and atmospheres that weave into an ever‑expanding body of work held together by a place she calls Elsewhere. Her practice embraces the potential of the in‑between. Elsewhere, Somewhere, Nowhere, Everywhere, and Erstwhile, the threshold spaces that bridge reality and reverie. As Jhumpa Lahiri writes, “In a world of diminishing mystery, the unknown persists.” Hannah’s work honours that persistence.
Hannah studied Fine Art at Falmouth College of Art and now teaches alongside her studio practice. Her work has been internationally collected and exhibited. She has collaborated with brands and institutions including Estée Lauder (Crème de la Mer), House of Taiping, Artelier, and Soho Myriad Art Consultancy, and has been featured in multiple publications.
Her current body of work is an exploration of liminality, portals, and the visual sublime, a quiet, powerful invitation to step into the in‑between, where reality and reverie meet.
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