1980 Elga Whales |
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| Elga, a company that purifies water, commissioned these panels which were to incorporate their whale logo. Three repeating panels show the whales against a background with whirly patterns representing water with two further repeating panels with swirly water patterns. Click here for more information |
1981 Ship & Storm |
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| The mural was commissioned to celebrate the opening of a new coast guards’ station in Falmouth. The design was based on a ship stricken on rocks with local pebbles and stone representing the sea lashing around. Together with the building, the mural was opened by Prince Charles in 1984. Click here for more information |
1981 Supper at Emmaus |
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| The mural was commissioned to go in his church by a priest retiring from his parish. The panel depicts the scene at Emmaus when Jesus appeared after his crucifixion with two travellers. Here, as the engraved script beneath tells us, ‘They knew Him in the breaking of the bread.’ Click here for more information |
1982 History of Bristol - Broad Quay Panels |
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| Fifteen panels representing the history of Bristol by Philippa Threlfall working with Kennedy Collings. Click here for more information |
1982 W G Grace |
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| Developers of a new shopping mall in Downend wanted to acknowledge that W G Grace, the nineteenth century cricketer, spent his childhood in the village. W G Grace is seen sitting dressed in whites in front of the family home ‘Chestnuts’ on whose lawns he famously played his first games of cricket. Click here for more information |
1983 Rochdale Trade Tokens |
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| The commission for offices in Rochdale, the historic heart of the wool manufacturing, inspired the use of nineteenth century trade tokens from the area. The small images of tokens were hugely enlarged to create roundels reminding viewers of the town’s traditional links with the wool industry. Click here for more information |
1983 Toads of Taunton |
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| This was one of several major commissions from Standard Life Assurance. The three dimensional water feature for the Old Market Shopping Precinct in central Taunton consisted of three giant ceramic and fibreglass toads. They sit by water on large rocks obtained from a quarry in the Mendip Hills. Click here for more information |
1984 Hackney Dragon |
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1984 Union Discount Company Crest |
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| The Union Discount Company of London is a discounting house which was operating in the City of London. In the nineteenth century, their splendid premises had been a bank decorated with beautiful tiles. They now commissioned a mural for the entrance lobby, which was to represent their company crest. Click here for more information |
1985 The London Murals (x12 Repeats or Variants) |
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| The labour intensive modelled work in these murals was reproduced by using specially designed flexible moulds. Various details could be altered at the request of different clients, but using these new techniques it was possible to make a series of murals more economically. Many were done for various places in London but others were made for San Francisco, New York, Hong Kong and Germany. Click here for more information |
1986 East India Company Crest Cartouches |
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| This was one of several major commissions from Standard Life Assurance. A series of number panels were designed to commemorate the old East India Company, on whose site stood the new office development. The East India Company’s crest was adapted to receive both golden numbers and images of products imported over past centuries. Click here for more information |
1986 Four Seasons Cartouche |
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| This was one of several commissions from Standard Life Assurance. To enhance their office development they requested a mural based on the four seasons. A bird, poppies with corn, butterflies with brambles and an owl are incorporated into a cartouche based on eighteenth century designs. Click here for more information |
1988 Carters at Work |
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| A new shopping mall in Bath was to be named Shires Yard, the site having once belonged to one Thomas Shire. In the eighteenth century the yard was a centre for transport between London and Bath and the mural reminded passers-by of the men, horses and wagons which would have plied the carters’ trade. Click here for more information |
1988 Watermark Name Panels |
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| This was one of several major commissions from Standard Life Assurance. The company wanted ten different panels which were to identify different buildings situated on the site of the old John Dickinson Paper Mills at Croxley. Appropriately, the designs are based on nineteenth century water marks. Click here for more information |
1989 The Barnstaple Roundals |
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| A Tudor rose, the logo of the commissioning company Rosehaugh, fills one of two roundels high up on new offices in Central Barnstaple. The other roundel contains two pigs, commemorating the name of Gammon Walk. Click here for more information |
