Lot 223 - Annette Pugh - The 'No Longer There' Tree

Ink and acrylic on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Art on a Postcard

About
Annette Pugh is a contemporary artist whose work explores concepts relating to leisure, longing, and absence. Solitude and solace are ever present in Annette's paintings, which investigate a sense of place, happenstance and our deep emotional connections to the landscape.

Education
2021-22
Turps Correspondence Course
2004
MA Art and Design Histories, University of Central England, Birmingham
1998
MA Fine Art, University of Central England, Birmingham
1993
PGCE Art and Design, University of Central England, Birmingham, West Midlands
1990
BA(Hons) Fine Art, Stourbridge College/Wolverhampton Polytechnic, West Midlands

Solo Exhibitions
2023
Happenstance, The New Art Gallery Walsall
Bittersweet, Colley Ison Gallery, Birmingham

2019
Verdant, Reuben Colley Fine Art, Birmingham
Wanderlust, Argentea Gallery, Birmingham

2018
Ornament, Reuben Colley Fine Art, Birmingham

2017
Restless, Argentea Photography Gallery, Birmingham
Somewhere Never Travelled, Reuben Colley Fine Art

Group Exhibitions
2025
Surreal Solihull, Outdoor Exhibition

2024
London Art Fair, The Design Centre, Islington
Midlands Painters, Moonraven Gallery, Birmingham

2023
London Art Fair, The Design Centre, Islington
Bewdley Museum, Memory of Place, Birmingham Artspace, Bewdley Museum

2022
RBSA Prize Exhibition
Common Wealth Games Festival Summer Exhibition, Colley Ison Gallery, Birmingham
Winter Exhibition, Colley Ison Gallery, Birmingham

2021
Figurative Art Now, Mall Galleries
Ikon for Artists, Ikon Gallery Birmingham
Returning Voices (Art\write online project)

2020
Moment, (Art\write online project)
Hinterland 3, Medicine Gallery, Birmingham
Two Chairs (an online collaborative project with Art\write)

2019
RBSA Open Drawing, Birmingham
Coventry Drawing Prize, Blue Door Gallery, Coventry

2018
Bridge Gallery, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery
Romeo and Juliet; Take 2, Studley Artists Workhouse

Gallery Representation
Colley Ison Gallery, Birmingham
Gala Fine Art, Bristol (Roaming Art Gallery)

Statement about AOAP Submitted Artwork
Landscove Palm, Clarence Park Fountain and The 'No Longer There' Tree all record hidden or quiet locations, discovered by happenstance. They explore our emotional connection to the landscape and speak of quietude and reflection. Created in ink and acrylic, these small reminders of place draw upon my love of hand-tinted photographs and archive materials.