Several artist friends decided to join him, buying up adjacent wasteland and building their own mud-brick dwellings, and in 1953 they founded the Dunmoochin Artists Society (based on a joke that they had'done with moochin around').
Several artist friends decided to join him, purchasing adjacent waste land and building their own mud-brick dwellings. In 1953 they founded an artists'co-operative, the Dunmoochin Artists Society (based on Pugh's joke that they had'done with moochin around').