Robin Pugh
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Robin Pugh was born and raised in Redditch, West Midlands. He studied Fine Art at Bath School of Art, spent much of his career living and working in Birmingham (apart from a brief stint painting for Damien Hirst) and is now based in Eryri (Snowdonia),
North Wales. He has exhibited around the UK. Robin works in acrylics from his own photography. He is motivated by a desire to consider the overlooked. His ‘LOCUS’ series delves into the uncanny nature of small town suburbia, searching for that moment of time caught in the imperceptible shift between comfort and dread. ‘Space & Centre’, in collaboration with poet David Page, explored the psychogeography of Birmingham seeking out and responding to
various ‘non-places’ around the city. His series ‘I’m Not A Pigeon, I’m A Flocking Rock Dove!’ looks at our everyday feral friends, the humble pigeon. Painting these fascinating and underrated creatures, providing a space in which each one can be considered individually. His most recent works turn to the landscape and wildlife of his adopted home in Eryri.
Stones and slate, gathered from the mountains, rivers and valleys on his doorstep, become the canvas for detailed studies of local birds. The delicacy of each figure sits in quiet contrast to the raw ruggedness of the stone beneath and the weight of the history that it carries. Slate holds its own deep significance in this part of North Wales, shaped by centuries of quarrying and the communities that grew around it. ‘This Land’, a new series of landscape paintings, captures the hills, valleys and skies of Eryri. Grown out of long meanders through the area, camera in hand, looking slowly and without agenda. Robin has long been drawn to ideas of place and the creatures that inhabit it, but where earlier series held them within broader conceptual frameworks these works are a more direct response to his surroundings, letting the land speak more plainly.