Tag: Painting
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Internationalists
International Youth Year Mural at Wisbech Community Centre, Cambs June 85 If you believe you have an equal shareIn the whole wide world and all it bearsAn’ that your share is no less or more thanYour fellow sisters and your brother manThen take this knowledge and with it insistDeclare yourself an internationalist If you lay…
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Enjoy Yourself
Doddl’Orangerie Mural at Gt. Doddington Primary April 25 The Challenge: A brand new building. Unblemished white walls. A long inviting corridor. The stage was set. On my previous visit to Great Doddington Primary I painted the four walls of the library with storybook characters, ‘Wild Wood’, and through the windows I saw a new building…
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Blossom
‘Cherry Blossom Pathway’ Mural at Blossom Children’s Occupational Therapy, Stanion 19 – 24 Feb 25 ‘Black days of winter all were throughThe blossoms came and they brought youClouds left the sky and I knew the reason whyThey made way for you andThe blossom and the blossom The seasons cycle turned againAn April shower now and…
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Wild Wood
Library Mural at Gt. Doddington Primary June/July & Nov/Dec 24 ‘The pattering increased till it sounded like sudden hail on the dry-leaf carpet spread around him. The whole wood seemed running now, running hard, hunting, chasing, closing in round something or – somebody? In panic, he began to run too, aimlessly, he knew not whither.…
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The Liquidator
‘I was born under a Wanderers scarf’ “Why are you a Wolverhampton Wanderers supporter?” I’ve been asked for an explanation countless times over the years. But it’s a valid question. After all, I wasn’t born in Wolverhampton, nor have I ever lived or worked there and even though the School of Art is very close…
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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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Farm On The Freeway
Wolverhampton College – ‘Another Farmyard’ Bigger Picture Project 2001 Farmyard Tales – Stephen Cartwright Wolverhampton College, Bilston Campus, Wellington Road, Wolverhampton WV14 6BT
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Hidden Treasure
Ettingshall Primary – ‘Pirate Treasure’ Bigger Picture Project 2001 Ettingshall Primary, Albany Crescent, Bilston, Wolverhampton WV14 0HU (Now Bilston C of E Primary School)