Jacky Puzey’s stunning 3-D tableaux, wall screens, statement furniture and embroidered wallpaper, featuring prowling foxes and pirouetting parakeets, along with fur, feathers, tweed and organza, adorn homes and businesses from the UK to Kuwait. Earlier this year, though, she put them all aside to concentrate on a church project which owes much to history–and outlandish legend. ‘It’s a great commission,’ notes Jacky enthusiastically, ‘as I’m usually asked to do more contemporary work, but I love the research.’ Jacky is aware this project will define an era, not only of her eight-year, part-time stretch working on it but for the people of Kingston upon Thames. Legend has it that seven Anglo-Saxon kings were crowned in Kingston, close to the site of All Saints Church.
In 2015, after Grade I-listed All Saints…