John Pugh (artist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

John Pugh (artist)

American artist

Date of Birth: 02-May-1957

Place of Birth: Lake Forest, Illinois, United States

Profession: painter

Zodiac Sign: Taurus

John Pugh (born 1957) is an American artist known for creating large trompe-l'oeil wall murals giving the illusion of a three-dimensional scene behind the wall.
Pugh has been creating his murals since the late 1970s.
He attended California State University Chico, receiving his BA in 1983 and the Distinguished Alumni Award in 2003.
He has received over 250 public and private commissions in the United States, Canada, Mexico, Barbados, Japan, Taiwan, and New Zealand.
He currently lives and works in Truckee, California.
His particular style of trompe-l'oeil painting has been called "Narrative Illusionism." His works have been described as "not merely ornamental or curiously clever.
They are thought-provoking, substantial, and sometimes even philosophical or spiritual.
What separates the murals of John Pugh from their less consequential cousins is that he goes beyond trompe l’oeil by combining techniques of illusion with narrative or conceptual elements and thereby not only “fools the eye” but captures the imagination and engages the mind as well."