Being a Green Artist!
The environment and being green has been important to me for as long as I can remember. Having been a professional wildlife conservationist and environmentalist for nearly 20 years before I became a professional artist I have to say that I have considered my impact on the environment for a long time and before it […]
Visiting Flanders Battlefields -Stay at Varlet Farm by Peterborough Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill
Now lets be clear this is an independent genuine review and I have not been paid for this blog. I have recently been back in Belgium this time working on my art series commemorating significant events people and places from WWI a hundred years on. We stayed at Varlet Farm(named by British Soldiers in WWI) […]
CHARRON PUGSLEY-HILL An artist from Peterborough who does not draw!
Honestly I am rubbish at drawing-really rubbish! I was quite good at scientific diagrams when I did my science degree and into my professional career as a wildlife conservationist but when I became an artist everyone assumed I could draw and they don’t believe you when you say you can’t and you won’t and you […]
IN FLANDERS FIELDS TODAY-Original painting by Peterborough Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill
As part of the series of work that I am creating on significant places,events and people a hundred years on from WWI, I have this week been staying on Varlet Farm near Ypres to create a painting inspired by the poem In Flanders Fields today by John McCrae. This poem was brought to my attention […]
The Wedding Day and Special Event Artist-Charron Pugsley-Hill
Would you think I was crazy if I said I go to weddings but not as a guest but as an artist? Yes actually painting on the day at the wedding! And I have painted amongst others HARVEST GOLD inspired by a huge award winning event HARVEST in Peterborough Cathedral square where harvest was celebrated […]
FLORALIA AT PETERBOROUGH GREEN FESTIVAL
Beautiful weather always helps for a festival but if theres nothing of substance about the festival the weather becomes irrelevant. And this was in my opinion was the best ever Green Festival in Peterborough since it began too many years ago for me to remember. I was there to create the second version of FLORALIA, […]