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of a Land of Sweets
This mural was painted in a house near Hereford in August 2007.
It is in the bedroom of two young girls; they wished to brighten
up their room in a new house, and came up with the idea of a land
of sweets - where nearly everything in the landscape would be made
of sweets, from candyfloss clouds, to gingerbread men, to ice cream
trees and a house made of sweets. And then finished off with three
fairies in the foreground, because no little girls' bedroom is complete
without fairies.
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The mural had to be completed in one week from agreement of the
brief to finishing the mural, before the family moved in to their
new house. Everything was painted freehand and, apart from sketching
in the main items in pencil, were painted directly onto the wall
as I went along. This commission involved the purchase and consumption
of large quantities of sweets!
The mural was painted in acrylics and emulsion and measures about
14 feet wide (including the tree on the adjacent wall) by 9 feet
high.
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