Tag: Painting
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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)
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The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise
Randolph Beresford Early Excellence Centre – ‘Sunrise’ Bigger Picture Project 2001 ‘Sunrise in the Countryside’ ‘Sunrise in the Amazon Jungle?’ Randolph Beresford Early Excellence Centre, 4 Australia Rd, London W12 7PH