Author: Colin Slater – artist
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Life Is A Long Song
Blog Title Soundtracks (Click ‘song title‘ link to read Blog. Click ‘artist‘ link to view a performance of soundtrack) Internationalists – The Style Council Enjoy Yourself – The Specials Blossom – Nick Drake Wild Wood – Paul Weller The Liquidator – Harry J. All Stars The Sound Of Silence – Simon & Garfunkel Unforgettable –…
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Don’t Stop
‘Yesterday’s Gone’ Mural at The Clayton Rooms, Pavilion Drive, Oundle School 19/20 & 26/27 Nov 22 A new venue for a ‘Bigger Picture’ project and pretty much on my home patch too being only a couple of miles from home. Considering the 120 mile daily round trip to Leicester I had not so long ago to…
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Thank You For The Music………Encore!
The Fulbridge Academy Music Room Project – The Cavern………. Sept ’22 ‘Thank you for the music, the songs I’m singing. Thanks for all the joy they’re bringingWho can live without it? I ask in all honesty. What would life be?Without a song or a dance, what are we? So I say thank you for the…
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Come Together………….3
The Fulbridge Academy Sistine Chapel Project – The Sequel Movie……..the very end Aug ’22 Then, 7 years later, I returned to the Fulbridge ‘Sistine Chapel’ project. It was good to see it again after such a long break, it was like meeting up with an old friend. Despite being located in a busy ‘corridor’, the…
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Play The Game 5
The Fulbridge Academy Sports Hall Project – Extra Time Aug 22 Like stepping from a time capsule I recently returned to Fulbridge Academy four years after completing the mammoth Sports Hall project. As I’d previously described the mural in terms of being ‘First Half’, ‘Second Half’ & ‘Third Half’, it seems fitting that I should…
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Everyday Is A Winding Road
‘Jump In, Let’s Go!’ Sports Hall Mural at Fosse Mead Primary, Leicester Jan – June 22 Last spring I received an invitation to visit Fosse Mead Primary Academy. An email had landed in my Inbox which contained a very tempting line, “There is a fantastic sports hall I would like painting”. A date for a…
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Strangely Strange But Oddly Normal
Library Mural at Meadowside Primary, Burton Latimer July – August/September 20 ‘When dark clouds pull the skyI have cast my eyeTo the path where we are treading Oh I could wrack my brainTrying to explainWhere it is I think that we are heading’ (Dr Strangely Strange) It’s been a strange year. We’ve all had to…
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The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) Revisited………….the movie!
‘Vivaldi’ Mural at St. Brendan’s Primary, Corby Completed August 20 St. Brendan’s Primary School, Beanfield Avenue, Corby NN18 OAZ
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The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) Revisited
‘Vivaldi’ Mural at St. Brendan’s Primary, Corby 18 – 24 August 20 Following a 5 month interlude, last week I returned to St. Brendan’s Primary in Corby to complete the ‘Vivaldi‘ mini hall mural. On the one hand it felt like no time had passed at all and yet so much has happened. It was good to…
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It’s All Over Now
Orchard Studio April 05 – June 20 Orchard Studio Farewell A white roomMy footsteps echoAll has gone Pause. Deep breathSilent reflection……….Time to leave Nothing lasts forever and earlier this year I was given notice to vacate my lovely studio. It has now been sold, so for the last few weeks I’ve been packing everything up. It’s been…