community engagement
Charron Pugsley-Hill Artist-in-residence Nene Park -#PERSEPHONESBED Art Installation
Persephone’s Bed is a bed that will be placed in different locations in the park in the 4 different seasons. It will be dressed for each of the seasons, autumn, winter, spring and summer. Visitors to the park can lie in the bed and observe the surroundings from the bed in each of the chosen […]
CHARRON PUGSLEY-HILL ARTIST IN RESIDENCE-NENE PARK-NENE PARK TRUST- PETERBOROUGH 2016/17
I cannot use enough words to tell you how much I am excited by this Artist in Residence post at Nene Park in Peterborough. As a back story, before I became a wildlife and environmental artist I was a professional wildlife conservationist and for many years my office was situated on the entrance road to […]
THE QUEENSGATE SKY OF POPPIES-THE SYMBOLISM AND MEANING by WWI Commemoration and Nature Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill
I met my husband 20 years ago in a beer tent whilst we both took part in the first English Heritage multi- period re-enactment event. I was in an English Civil War group and he was an officer in The Great War Society. My introduction to World War began although to be honest it was […]
THE SKY OF POPPIES- A Month to Installation
Today it is a month until the SKY OF POPPIES is installed overnight in Queensgate Shopping Centre on the 23rd June.THIS DATE HAS NOW CHANGED TO THE 6TH JULY 10AM!!! It feels like a lot of time but then it feels too close as there is still much to complete. Firstly we need to complete […]
THE QUEENSGATE SKY OF POPPIES with WWI Commemoration Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill-The Inspiration and Free Workshops.
I am very excited to announce that I have been commissioned by Queensgate Shopping Centre Peterborough to create a major new art installation to commemorate the centenary of The Battle of The Somme in 1916. This installation will be in place from the 6th July until 13th November 2016 in North Square Queensgate Shopping Centre. […]
THE LONELY ANZAC-A MAN FAR FROM HOME-His story and the art-Charron Pugsley-Hill
World War I was a global conflict that defined the 20th century and had long lasting profound effects on the worlds people, political ramifications and huge technological changes. It was a moment in time that was the violent forerunner of the modern world. Sergeant Thomas Hunter is THE LONELY ANZAC-A MAN FAR FROM HOME. He […]
THE QUEENSGATE SKY OF POPPIES by ARTIST CHARRON PUGSLEY-HILL
THE QUEENSGATE SKY OF POPPIES is an art installation that will commemorate The Battle of The Somme in World War I, a hundred years on. It will be installed in Queensgate Shopping Centre from the 6th July until the 13th November to co-incide with the timings of the battle itself. Visitors will stand,walk and see […]
HOW YOU CAN MAKE A DIFFERENCE BY SHOPPING WITH SMALL BUSINESSES! Peterborough Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill
Does it matter if I shop with small businesses? Surely it won’t make much of a difference to them? WELL YES IT DOES! A HUGE DIFFERENCE!The following is the difference that it makes to me but imagine this difference all over the country to all those businesses trying to survive in this tough economic world….. […]
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 […]