ARTWORK FROM ANNA PUGH & MADELEINE FLOYD
Mayne Gallery in Kingsbridge is featuring the artwork of Anna Pugh and Madeleine Floyd during September.
The painter Anna Pugh, born 1938, is admired as a colourist and storyteller. In twenty years she has produced over two hundred paintings, all in private collections in Great Britain, Europe and North America. Her paintings, like those of Richard Dadd and Howard Hodgkins, show the commonplace enlivened by touches of the surreal. Few artists equal her ability to record natural phenomena and to invigorate it with such persuasive illusion. They have the freshness and irreverent vitality of life lived close to nature. They are pictures that people enjoy living with, recording the countryside; the flora and fauna and the changing seasons.
“The best joy in my garden is when it buzzes with bees and flies and lacewings and beetles; when the marjoram is alive with things crawling and hopping and flying. I think insects are the stuff of life. I would love to know what invisible things the sparrows are picking up on the brick terrace in the sun.”
Born in 1969, Madeleine Floyd studied Fine Art and Illustration at Camberwell College of Art, and has achieved
great success in both fields. She works from her studio in London and is fast becoming one of Britain’s best-loved artists.
Madeleine’s creative talent is one of remarkable depth and variety. She paints, she draws, she writes and she illustrates. This versatility allows Madeleine to produce hugely successful exhibitions, and write and illustrate her own books including the recent classic ‘Birdsong’, published by Anova Books. Her illustrations are informed by a strong draughtsmanship that captures the essence and emotion of the subjects she chooses, combining a timeless sensitivity with a gentle humour. With only a dip pen and a pot of ink she is able to capture the essence of a subject with the most minimal and elegant use of line. Her work is both accessible and sophisticated, immediate and engaging.
This collection of prints celebrates one of Madeleine’s great passions – British birds; their songs, characters and diversity.
Happiness by Anna Pugh
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