Warm Welcome - Spennymoor Mural Festival

A collaborative mural with both the community and mentoring an artist to create their first large scale mural for Spennymoor Mural Festival.

I mentored The Live Sketcher (Rach) who usually does live small scale sketches at events, to transform these into a large scale mural. I mentored her through the full process; how I work with community groups, how does she want people to feel when looking at a mural and how can her artwork translate to large scale, bearing in mind designing for site specific spaces. We worked together to use her skills, my use of colour and community sessions with Spennymoor Youth and Community Centre, working with the refugee group learning English and a coffee morning group. She live sketched members and I did drawing sessions with members and we chatted with the groups over tea and coffee, people that have been a a part of the community for decades and others who are new to the area. The final mural was part of Spennymoor Mural Festival, which we installed together.