EDITH CAVELL-THE BLANKET OF POPPIES
Art and Stories commemorating 1915
“AND THEY MARCHED INTO GALLIPOLI” Acrylics, metallics and fine glitters on canvas 60 x 45cm The Gallipoli Campaign was one of the Allies greatest disasters in World War I. The land invasion started at dawn on 25th April 1915 and ended on the 9th January 1916. The campaign was one of the greatest Turkish victories […]
EDITH CAVELL COMMEMORATION PETERBOROUGH 12TH OCTOBER 2015
The City of Peterborough held a commemoration service for British nurse Edith Cavell on Monday at dawn-a hundred years exactly from when Edith was executed for helping hundreds of allied soldiers escape German occupied Brussels to freedom in Holland. She attended Laurel Court School in Peterborough where she learnt the fluent french that enabled her […]
THE BLANKET OF POPPIES-Commemorating the Life, Work and Execution of British Nurse Edith Cavell in WWI
THE BLANKET OF POPPIES has been created by myself the artist Charron Pugsley-Hill, the artisan felter Eve Marshall and 49 ladies who made the stunning poppies that make up the blanket around the centrepiece of Britain and Belgium. I am not going to describe the blanket as it can be seen in all the amazing […]
Edith Cavell and her Peterborough Story by artist Charron Pugsley-Hill
Edith Cavell was a British nurse who was executed in Brussels for helping allied soldiers escape from the occupying German army a hundred years ago in World War I. I am commemorating her life work and execution in THE BLANKET OF POPPIES-an artwork currently in progress-see my other blogs about this work. EDITH CAVELL […]
Edith Cavell and Brussels-her story-Peterborough Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill
I am writing a series of blogs to tell the story of British nurse Edith Cavell who was executed on 12th October 1915 for helping allied soldiers escape German occupied Brussels. This is her Brussels part of the story…. EDITH CAVELL Edith Cavell first went to Brussels in 1890 as a 25 year old governess […]
THE BLANKET OF POPPIES – EDITH CAVELL WORKSHOPS WITH ARTIST CHARRON PUGSLEY-HILL
This week in my Peterborough studio has been a bit crazy since THE BLANKET OF POPPIES hit the press-I sent out a press release to 4 places of which 3 took the story and then it made BBC NEWS ONLINE. This was fabulous as it meant that I have been contacted by […]
Commemorating WWI in Art-Edith Cavell-The Blanket of Poppies
If you have never heard of Edith Cavell before then thats all about to change! 2015 is a hundred years since she was executed in 1915 in Brussels during the First World War for helping allied soldiers to escape the german occupation and the consequences that capture would have brought upon them. As part of […]