Tag: John Lennon
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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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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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Instant Karma!
Titchmarsh Primary/Warmington School ‘Sharing Day’ Mural 18.10.13 ‘I wrote it for breakfast, recorded it for lunch and we’re putting it out for dinner’ The words of John Lennon, and the story, as he told it, about how the song ‘Instant Karma’ was produced. It’s slightly inaccurate. It was written and recorded in a single day,…
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Roots to Branches
A new year, another bigger picture project. It was suggested toward the end of last year by Iain Erskine, Head of Fulbridge School, Peterborough. ‘I’ve a job I’d like you to think about,’ he said, ‘for the gable over the front entrance’. I’ve painted gable ends before but never within the confines of a triangle,…
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Just Like Starting Over…………..
Haze. Sleep. Dream. Nightmare Suddenly. Without warning Prostrate. Hanging on A deep rooted pain Aggressive and insistent And out of this world Air gasped through gritted teeth Ribs crushed tight in hot barbed wire I refused to leave The other side called I almost lost ev’rything But wouldn’t let go …