In 2018, I started spray painting as a creative outlet and a bit of a delayed teenaged rebellion. Initially, I was sneaking around with a large bag of rattling paint cans, hopping fences and exploring abandoned mining buildings for suitable walls to paint on. Once my parents found out, I was rather annoyed that my they supported my creative vandalism rather than grounding me to my room.
In 2018, for part St Austell’s Garden Festival I was commissioned for my first mural by St Austell BID
This mural had a simple breif of to be garden themed to match with the festival. A digital mock-up of the design was presented to the client and approved.
The size of the mural is 5 x 5 meters it took me a single day to paint from start to finish.
During the painting of the mural, Cornwall Pride showed up a double-decker bus and had a small celebration for pride month. As an ally, I painted the electricity box as a tribute.
My second and largest mural, measuring 22 x 6 meters, was with the combined brief of garden and ceramics, commissioned by White River Shopping Center in St Austell.
This mural took me over a week to paint the flowers for this mural, and I had to leave the vase partly unpainted while away for Uni before I returned at the start of 2020 to finish the vase.
For this project, I had to handle a much larger budget and a set time frame to complete the project. Due to the large volume of paint, I was able to negotiate a deal with the paint supplier a discount.