I was approached almost a year ago by a member of Glastonbury Town Council to design a mural to camouflage a big wall of soundproofing panels that had been installed in the main hall of the Glastonbury Town Hall and was seriously lacking in visual appeal.
Glastonbury is a very eclectic place and the community holds such a wide spectrum of people that i wasn’t too excited about having to design something that represented the whole town past and future, and would have to be approved by a group of people with vastly different taste.
photo by Vicki Steward of www.normalforglastonbury.co.uk
Fresh from my painting success in NZ where i’d learnt valuable skills in simply not taking on any projects that made me stressed whatsoever, i took the project very lightly and focussed intently on the part of the brief that asked me to match the colours of the curtains, rather than illustrate the spiritual and historical depth of the town and its people.
The curtains were peacock blue..
can you see the peacocks in my repeat design? This is the mock design that made it through 4 council meetings and 1 public vote. none of which i participated in. keeping stress minimum.
So i started on Decemeber 28th and here we are on January 21st “unveiling” the mural. it was spacious and welcoming and warm in the hall and i loved watching how the different parts of the Glastonbury community used the space.
This and all of the cycling and running i’ve been doing outside has absolutely without any doubt got me through this most brutal of British winters.
I feel honoured to have had the chance to do this and i hope this mural lives on and on inside this building, along with my reputation as a solid creative member of the Glastonbury community.
