Mabboo Summer Pop Up Shop

Following on from the Christmas pop up shop, Mabboo have a new pop up store in The Galleries, Bristol. Another chance to see my Mabboo painting if you're about, and check out the Gromit outside.

Mabboo Mural

Here is the live art I created at the ECO Pop Up Shop at the weekend. The ECO team had a fun Saturday night launch party and needed some art for their walls. The shop is located on the top floor of The Galleries shopping centre, Bristol, and features Mabboo Bamboo T-shirts and products, and Aymo shoes and satchels. The mural features some Chinese, a  lucky cat, some bamboo, clouds, a sunburst, hot air balloons, the Clifton suspension bridge, and the SS Great Britain. If you're in Bristol go take a look! Thans to Ed and the Aymo team, (and special thanks to Sam for his help: his filling in was exemplary!).

Another mural

Recently did another mural (I love the smell of emulsion FYI). Here's a couple of quick snaps - the more intelligent of you may very well see a theme emerging. Answers on a postcard please. Will post some better photos soon. Promise.

How's My Grilling?

Coming to a festival near you this summer: the Blas Burgerworks Street van! The St Ives-based burger restaurant, revered for its organic ingredients, locally-sourced produce, sustainable credentials (and most-importantly tasty burgers) is going on the road this summer. They asked me to put together a design for the 'Blasmobile', which was unveiled last weekend at the Golowan Festival, Penzance, and the Quay Fair day. The design was very kindly artworked onto the van by the good people at Signs Express, Exeter. All this thinking about Blas Burgers is making me hungry. Cornish Blue Cheeseburger please. I wonder if they'll deliver to Brighton...(picks up phone)...

In their own words: 3.5 tonnes of burger love coming your way! Follow Marie, Sally, Lisa and the team's antics here, here and here ! Phew!

Halsetown Inn Mural # 2

Here's a much larger mural I did in the dining room of the Halsetown Inn. Somewhat eclipsed by the massive pews, but hey they're essential for the hundreds of people that'll be in to try Chef Baxter and the crew's new menu and wine list! So the new management love all the appaloosa horses in the surrounding fields, so they had to make an appearance, along with their new slogan and the area's beautiful scenery. 

This horse is small:

This horse is far away: 

 Here's the text for those of you who don't want to strain your eyes too much:

 Here's a cloud coming off the Atlantic:

 And here's one in daylight for you non-vampires:

Halsetown Inn Mural # 1

 

Here's some shots of a mural I did for the Halsetown Inn, a pub in Halsetown, just inland from St Ives, Cornwall. It has just been taken over by the Blas Burgerworks crew. This painting is in the hallway of the pub, greeting all the tourists and locals alike with a scene from the surrounding countryside...