Nigel R Pugh graduated from Cardiff College of Art in 1978 and worked as an Industrial and Architectural Designer and Illustrator until the early 1990s then he moved to West Wales to become a full-time painter. His work includes large scale semi-abstract paintings, watercolours, monoprints and drawings, sculpture, b&w landscape photographs and more recently, aerial photography Nigel's sources are drawn from a very wide range of interests but are fundamentally from landscape and environmentally based physical and mental structures. He has long been fascinated with maps and have been trying to develop and visualize a subjective mapped view in a conscious effort to break with his own legacy of linear representative work.