Author: Colin Slater – artist
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I Heard It Through The Grapevine……..part ii
Give Peace A Chance & Gladiator Murals at Rowlatts Hill Primary Academy, Leicester – The Movie Rowlatts Hill Primary Academy, Balderstone Close, Leicester LE5 4ES
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Walk All Over You
Gladiator Mural (Part 3) at Rowlatts Hill Primary Academy, Leicester 31.5 – 8.6.17 ‘Don’t stop until you are proud’ The third and final part of the ‘Gladiator’ project was to be painted on the floor. Physically, painting large walls is always a challenge. Painting ceilings is even more onerous, there is no escape from the…
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Gladiator Mural (Parts 1&2) at Rowlatts Hill Primary Academy, Leicester 20.2 – 5.5.17 Hard on the heels of the ‘Once Upon A Time‘ mural, my brief for this follow-on project was to transform the appearance of a fairly narrow and very busy corridor and create a taste of Tuscany, a landscape filled with grapevines and…
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Give Peace A Chance
Give Peace A Chance Mural at Rowlatts Hill Primary Academy, Leicester 24.4 – 3.5.17 ‘All we are saying…………..Is Give Peace A Chance………….’ A wall alongside the previously painted ‘Casablanca’ mural, intended to appear as a stained glass window with ‘Peace’ as its theme. The design is based upon ‘Dove of the Holy Spirit’ c.1660, above…
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Pure Imagination
‘Once Upon A Time’ Mural at Rowlatts Hill Primary School, Leicester 7.9.16 – 13.2.17 ‘If you want to view paradise Simply look around and view it Anything you want to do, do it Wanna change the world? There’s nothing to it’ I know I’ve used the phrase ‘most challenging project’ before, and I hate to…
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Thank You For The Music
The Fulbridge Academy Music Room Project – The Cavern………. 4.1 – 10.6.16 The BriefI know I’ve said this before, and I’m certain I will say it again, but this was a most demanding and challenging project, perhaps the most complex and involved mural proposal I’ve been involved with. Even before I’d completed the Fulbridge ‘Sistine…
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Everything & Nothing
3 Parts Dirt! at The Angel Inn, Oundle 30.4.16 (as it might have been reviewed for Radio 3) After reading the following message in my Facebook newsfeed how could I not take the time to accept such an irresistible invitation, 3 Parts Dirt! were going to be playing virtually in my own backyard, I welcomed…
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My Hero
The ‘Casablanca’ Mural at Rowlatts Hill Primary School, Leicester 16.11 – 4.12.15 Why ‘The Casablanca Mural’? Humphrey Bogart famously said in the last line of that movie, “Louie, I think this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship”, and I looked upon my invitation to work with Rowlatts Hill Primary School in Leicester in the…
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Seasons Change
Landmarks & Milestones: A Painter’s Progress 5-29 October 2015 • The Castle, Wellingborough NN8 1XA Our lives follow a meandering path, taking us in different and unexpected directions. This retrospective exhibition is an opportunity to reflect upon a painting career that has incorporated a variety of subjects and activities, with dramatic changes in scale. From…
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Dans le port d’Amsterdam
Operation Amsterdam 1997 & 1998 Following footsteps I walk streets graced by Rembrandt To catch his shadow * Balancing bridgeways Over watery highways Cobble stoned byways * Coffee, freshly brewed Rijksmuseum, van Gogh too Mind that! Sidestep poo! Wet Streets, silver lines Hand rolled cigs (but not Woodbines!) Red lights, neon signs Bike bells ring,…