Flowers
Creativity with furniture-How to Up-cycle or decoupage your Furniture-Peterborough Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill
Creativity isn’t one thing-it can be many things to many people! If like me you are focusing on one type of art for the majority of your time it is good to take time out and experiment with other techniques or colours or ideas. If you have an old piece of furniture that is looking […]
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, […]
#FLORALIA-Installation at FLUX Exhibition London by Peterborough Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill
Having written already about the why behind the inspiration of Floralia this post is about the day of creation at FLUX-an international exhibition for comtemporary artists in London. When we arrived at The Rag Factory there was already an excited buzz as the exhibition continued to be put together. It had the appearance of chaos […]
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 […]
The Scarlet Poppy
I love poppies along with much of the population and this year has been amazing for these stunning flowers that generally appear in June. This year they were early and are still persisting on disturbed ground including road verges. Around Peterborough there have been a number of whole fields full of nothing but poppies as […]