FLORALIA – Art Installation by Peterborough Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill
FLORALIA is a celebration of flowers being reflected from my paintings of flowers, gardens and wildflower meadows. In Roman mythology, Flora was a goddess of flowers and the season of spring. She was a relatively minor figure in Roman mythology, being one among several fertility goddesses but her association with the spring gave her particular […]
Commemorating Significant Events Places and People from World War I -Charron Pugsley-Hill
I have described in another blog the paintings that I created in 2014 to commemorate 1914. I hope that you have found these paintings interesting, emotional and informative. I and others believe they are important as traditionally war art is very dark and horrific to many who cannot then listen to the stories that they […]
5 quick projects to do with children
I always like to have a few projects to do with my children if we have 10 minutes spare: 1. Seeded pastry for your garden birds. Very easy to do and loved especially by the long-tailed tits in my garden. Make some pastry by adding flour,water and fat(animal is best and no margarine or processed […]
Are you being a Creative Person?
We tend to label people rightly or wrongly as a creative or a non-creative person. It is easy to make a comment that hits a nerve and sends someone down a particular path in life. I only found art or it found me in 2010 and I am pretty curious at the moment about being […]
Its beginning to look a lot like christmas if its…
This fabulous poem was written by Peterborough Poet Keely Mills for my christmas Open Evening in my Peterborough Studio. It went down a storm! Thank you so much Keely for writing it especially and what will you do next year? Its beginning to look a lot like Christmas if it’s… the Christmas creep, retailers pushing […]
Contemporary Paintings that commemorate Significant Events from WWI
I have created an initial series of 3 paintings, commemorating significant moments of World War 1, during 1914: the First Battle of Mons on 23rd August 1914 is entitled ‘And They Faced Each Other’; the retreat at Le Cateau on 26th August 1914 is entitled ‘And They Waited’; and the Christmas Truce on 25th December […]