Tag: Painting
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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…
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The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) Revisited………….the movie!
‘Vivaldi’ Mural at St. Brendan’s Primary, Corby Completed August 20 St. Brendan’s Primary School, Beanfield Avenue, Corby NN18 OAZ
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The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni) Revisited
‘Vivaldi’ Mural at St. Brendan’s Primary, Corby 18 – 24 August 20 Following a 5 month interlude, last week I returned to St. Brendan’s Primary in Corby to complete the ‘Vivaldi‘ mini hall mural. On the one hand it felt like no time had passed at all and yet so much has happened. It was good to…
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The Four Seasons (Le quattro stagioni)
‘Vivaldi’ Mural at St. Brendan’s Primary, Corby Feb – March 20 Once upon a time……. A new location, St. Brendan’s Primary in Corby, and a school with a musical reputation. Therefore when Headteacher Leanne Brydon invited me to design a painting with a collection of children’s book characters in four sections for their ‘Mini Hall’, the…
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Changes……..
…………….at Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy, Leicester 2015 – Oct 2019 ‘Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.’― Nelson Mandela ‘Change will not come if we wait for some other person, or if we wait for some other time. We are the ones we’ve been waiting for. We are…
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Dido’s Lament
Remembrance Mural at Rowlatts Mead Primary Academy, Leicester Sept – Oct 19 ‘When I am laid, am laid in earth, may my wrongs createNo trouble, no trouble in thy breast;Remember me, remember me, but ah! forget my fate.Remember me, but ah! forget my fate’. (Dido’s Lament – Henry Purcell) Same place, but with a new…
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Reelin’ In The Years
Gruffalo Wood & Art History Timeline Mural at Meadowside Primary, Burton Latimer May – July 19 It was six years ago when I first worked with Josie Garnham. Back then she was Head of Titchmarsh Primary School and had a different name. She then became Executive Head of both Titchmarsh and Warmington Primary Schools and…