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THE NENE PARK TRUST FELTED BLANKET by Environmental Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill, Artisan Felter Eve Marshall and the people of Ferry Meadows Country Park
As part of my artist-in-residence post at Ferry Meadows Country Park creating art inspired by nature of the park we planned to create a stunning felted blanket of the wildlife of the park. The design of the blanket creates itself almost in my head which I then communicate to Eve with whom this is the […]
SYMPHONY OF SPRING-An Original Painting by Nature Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill
Spring is a time of newness, of rebirth and new beginnings. A time to bring new energies to the world following the quietness of the winter months.Spring follows winter as growth follows the germination of seed. The colours become fresher and brighter with the new growth of tree leaves and plants such as bluebells and […]
An Artists Obsession with Feathers-by Nature Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill
Why have I become obsessed with feathers? Why am I seeing them everywhere at the moment? It all began with the installation PERSEPHONE’S BED AUTUMN as I saw moulted feathers everywhere as I was creating this piece-I collected them and popped them in a jar-they came out for the installation and then were put in […]
THE BIRDS NESTS-An art Installation by Nature Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill
THE BIRDS NESTS are an art installation created in Ferry Meadows Country Park, Peterborough as part of my art residency that has been funded by The Arts Council England until September 2017. Considering the presence of the extensive osier beds alongside the River Nene for many years I knew as a nature and installation artist […]
ALONE -A WINTER painting Charron Pugsley-Hill Artist-in-Residence Ferry Meadows Country Park Peterborough
As I focus on my series of art inspired by the seasons and my residency post at Ferry Meadows Country Park and The Nene Park Trust in Peterborough, I am finding such pleasure in the simple things of life. Just walking with my dog in the park on cold winters days with little human company, […]
WINTER WASHING AN ART INSTALLATION by Peterborough Artist Charron Pugsley-Hill
One day a few weeks ago I was painting in my studio and felt that someone was watching me. I looked up to see one of Father Christmas’s chief elves peering through his spectacles at me. I know who he was because I have actually met the real Father Christmas twice on visits to Lapland […]
THE THREE KINGS, A WALK AND A BED-Peterborough Environmental and Wildlife Artist-Charron Pugsley-Hill
Not all together but on different days in the same week!! It began with Persephone’s Bed Autumn (see previous blog for the story) and me thinking I might get 20 people lying in the bed…..about 80 people laid in the bed with and without the goddess….Why 20 …well often something familiar in a place you […]
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 […]