Tag: Mural
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O Mistress Mine
‘Paulo’ Library Mural at Denfield Park Primary, Rushden Jan – March 24 ‘What a sweet mistress is this perspective!’ – Paolo Uccello On 1st March last year I received a message from Angela Griffiths, Head of Denfield Park Primary, enquiring about painting murals on two walls in the school library, so this project came within…
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Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)
Entrance Lobby Mural at Gt. Doddington Primary October – November 23 ‘But it was just my imaginationRunnin’ away with meIt was just my imagina-a-tionRunnin’ away with me’ (Barrett Strong / Norman Whitfield 1971) A new location for a ‘Bigger Picture’ project, Gt. Doddington Primary, nestled cosily in a village situated just off the A45 close…
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Dance of the Mayfly
‘A Mural for Myah’ at Warmington School 11/12/13 April 23 My Mayfly Day In all the expanse of time From the first glimmer To the wink of the last sun I find I am here Here in this fraction of a moment That includes me And for this, my personal Mayfly day I am more…
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Walk The Dinosaur
The Fulbridge Academy Corridor Mural – Harry and the Dinosaurs July 12 Harry & the Bucketful of Dinosaurs – Ian Whybrow Fulbridge Academy, Keeton Rd, Peterborough PE1 3JQ
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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…