Forest Recycling Project one day murals
Forest Recycling Project commissioned me to work with them to design and paint a series of murals in urban gardens and outside areas around London. FRP are based in Walthamstow and supply recycled household paints. The idea for this project was for two artists to work together and paint the murals in one day, using only recycled household emulsion paints.
This was a challenge for me, as I rarely work with other mural artists, had never painted an entire mural in one day, and I usually use acrylic paints. It has turned out to be a really fun and exciting project to work on, and I've thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
We painted murals in Barking, Hackney, Newham and Walthamstow. A selection of photographs are shown below.
Quaker Meeting House, Walthamstow
This mural was designed by me, and painted by FRP's Alice Cunningham and me.
The children from the group added their handrpints as flowers, and the whole group aged from 14 months to 81 years added their hand prints to the vine I painted above the doorway.
Gascoigne Children's Centre, Barking
This mural was designed by me, and painted by artist Anna Ilsley and me.
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Staff and work experience students added their handprints to the design.
The wooden boards will be fixed to a wall in the Centre's garden.
Rhode's Estate Community Garden, Hackney
This mural was designed by me, and painted by FRP's Alice Cunningham and me.
The mural was finished in the dark at 7pm (we'd been rained and hailed off during the day!), hence the poor quality of picture. Whoever said being a mural artist was easy...
Community Garden, Newham
This mural was designed by FRP's Alice Cunningham and some of the residents of the community garden. Alice and I painted the main mural, some of the residents helped to paint parts of the background and the fabulous fox. I'm very proud of my veg.
This was a challenge for me, as I rarely work with other mural artists, had never painted an entire mural in one day, and I usually use acrylic paints. It has turned out to be a really fun and exciting project to work on, and I've thoroughly enjoyed the experience.
We painted murals in Barking, Hackney, Newham and Walthamstow. A selection of photographs are shown below.
Quaker Meeting House, Walthamstow
This mural was designed by me, and painted by FRP's Alice Cunningham and me.
The children from the group added their handrpints as flowers, and the whole group aged from 14 months to 81 years added their hand prints to the vine I painted above the doorway.
Gascoigne Children's Centre, Barking
This mural was designed by me, and painted by artist Anna Ilsley and me.
Staff and work experience students added their handprints to the design.
The wooden boards will be fixed to a wall in the Centre's garden.
Rhode's Estate Community Garden, Hackney
This mural was designed by me, and painted by FRP's Alice Cunningham and me.
The mural was finished in the dark at 7pm (we'd been rained and hailed off during the day!), hence the poor quality of picture. Whoever said being a mural artist was easy...
Community Garden, Newham
This mural was designed by FRP's Alice Cunningham and some of the residents of the community garden. Alice and I painted the main mural, some of the residents helped to paint parts of the background and the fabulous fox. I'm very proud of my veg.