Art ecology
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
Commissioning or Having Art made Especially for You by Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill
Have you ever thought about a special one-off made especially for you piece of art? Perhaps its an idea in your mind, somewhere you love, your garden or your favourite flower? Perhaps you love a painting of mine that you have seen but it’s sold? Perhaps you want something smaller or bigger or you have […]
World War I in 1915-Commemorating With Art-Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill
I am commemorating significant places people and events from WWI with a series of artworks created a hundred years on. Each year I will be looking at the major events and seeing which ones inspire or interest me in telling their stories through art that I create. In 1915 the following have particularly caught my […]
#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 […]
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 […]