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Hannah Pugh is a Birmingham‑based contemporary artist working with ink, bleach, acrylic, watercolour, and gilded details to create atmospheric, otherworldly abstract landscapes. Her intuitive mixed‑media process blends memory, imagination, and magical realism, resulting in dreamlike works that drift between reality and daydream.
This piece is from Hannah Pugh’s debut exhibition at Seventh Circle, ‘All Is Not Lost - Crossing Into Elsewhere, a collection exploring transformation and the spaces we move through.
Back When Tigers Used to Smoke Tobacco draws its title from a Korean folktale phrase meaning “once upon a time, long ago.” Hannah was drawn to the expression for its sense of mythic distance, a time before time, when stories lived closer to the surface of the world. She often speaks about her fascination with “the moments where folklore brushes up against the everyday,” and this piece sits firmly in that space.
Ink, acrylic and layered mark making create a composition that feels both ancient and playful, echoing the surreal imagery of the title. The work suggests a world where animals smoke pipes, mountains breathe, and the boundaries between the real and the imagined dissolve. It is a nod to oral storytelling traditions and the strange, elastic logic of myth.
Acrylic, ink, antique etching, cartridge paper, bleach, pastel, marbled silver leaf on cradled wooden panel.
Original Artwork
Size W 41 × L 51 cm
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Hannah Pugh is a Birmingham‑based contemporary artist working with ink, bleach, acrylic, watercolour, and gilded details to create atmospheric, otherworldly abstract landscapes. Her intuitive mixed‑media process blends memory, imagination, and magical realism, resulting in dreamlike works that drift between reality and daydream.
This piece is from Hannah Pugh’s debut exhibition at Seventh Circle, ‘All Is Not Lost - Crossing Into Elsewhere, a collection exploring transformation and the spaces we move through.
Back When Tigers Used to Smoke Tobacco draws its title from a Korean folktale phrase meaning “once upon a time, long ago.” Hannah was drawn to the expression for its sense of mythic distance, a time before time, when stories lived closer to the surface of the world. She often speaks about her fascination with “the moments where folklore brushes up against the everyday,” and this piece sits firmly in that space.
Ink, acrylic and layered mark making create a composition that feels both ancient and playful, echoing the surreal imagery of the title. The work suggests a world where animals smoke pipes, mountains breathe, and the boundaries between the real and the imagined dissolve. It is a nod to oral storytelling traditions and the strange, elastic logic of myth.
Acrylic, ink, antique etching, cartridge paper, bleach, pastel, marbled silver leaf on cradled wooden panel.
Original Artwork
Size W 41 × L 51 cm
.
Shipping
Seventh Circle provides free shipping across the UK and Northern Ireland.
For international orders, please contact us (hello@svnthcrcl.com) for a custom shipping quote outside of the UK and Northern Ireland.
For more information, please see our terms and conditions.
