Tag: Painting
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Invincible 3
The Fulbridge Academy Sports Hall Project – First Half 20.10.17 Day 26 Back Wall No.1 completed! Fulbridge Academy, Keeton Rd, Peterborough PE1 3JQ
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Invincible 2
The Fulbridge Academy Sports Hall Project – First Half 6.10.17 Day 16 The back walls are starting to take shape, however some modification of the design has been necessary. Two noticeboards have been removed as well as an old electrical fuse box, which has caused not only an adjustment of the original design but also…
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Invincible
The Fulbridge Academy Sports Hall Project September ’17 Soon after the start of the 2017/18 football season and I’m working at Fulbridge Academy again. I’m both honoured and excited to be given another opportunity to paint on a monumental scale and this time I’m in the Main Hall (now renamed as Looney Tune Land). This…
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Back Where You Started
A Step Back In Time ‘If perfection could be achieved it wouldn’t be worth having‘ A return to Thorpe Hall, 43 years later. Back in June 1974 I spent a day here painting a landscape for my ‘A’ level Art paper and made reference to it in a previous blog about my school art teacher…
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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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Walk All Over You
Gladiator Mural (Part 3) at Rowlatts Hill Primary Academy, Leicester 31.5 – 8.6.17 ‘Don’t stop until you are proud’ The third and final part of the ‘Gladiator’ project was to be painted on the floor. Physically, painting large walls is always a challenge. Painting ceilings is even more onerous, there is no escape from the…
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I Heard It Through the Grapevine
Gladiator Mural (Parts 1&2) at Rowlatts Hill Primary Academy, Leicester 20.2 – 5.5.17 Hard on the heels of the ‘Once Upon A Time‘ mural, my brief for this follow-on project was to transform the appearance of a fairly narrow and very busy corridor and create a taste of Tuscany, a landscape filled with grapevines and…
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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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Pure Imagination
‘Once Upon A Time’ Mural at Rowlatts Hill Primary School, Leicester 7.9.16 – 13.2.17 ‘If you want to view paradise Simply look around and view it Anything you want to do, do it Wanna change the world? There’s nothing to it’ I know I’ve used the phrase ‘most challenging project’ before, and I hate to…
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Thank You For The Music
The Fulbridge Academy Music Room Project – The Cavern………. 4.1 – 10.6.16 The BriefI know I’ve said this before, and I’m certain I will say it again, but this was a most demanding and challenging project, perhaps the most complex and involved mural proposal I’ve been involved with. Even before I’d completed the Fulbridge ‘Sistine…