Projects
A selection of murals, public artworks and projects made with people. Open a project to explore the ideas, conversations and making behind the finished work.
Review version · October 2026. Further photographs, dates and testimonials are being added.
Ruperra Street Play Park — Pill Primary
A mural made with Year 6 pupils, bringing together national flowers from the many backgrounds in their school community. When I returned for the later Pill Park project, I learned that the teachers had adopted the design workshop approach as part of their curriculum.
Full Colour Maindee
In 2024, more than 40 artists brought new work to walls, shopfronts and public spaces across Maindee. I helped recruit and support the artists, curated the programme and painted murals of my own. I relished both roles: making work myself and helping other artists find the right places for theirs.
Gateway Garden — Maindee & RHS Malvern
I worked with garden designer Emily Crowley-Wroe to connect a painted landscape with real planting. The project brought together a permanent mural in Maindee and a separate panel mural for the RHS Malvern show garden, which was always intended to come back to the community afterwards.
The Dragon of Pontypool
A dragon with furnaces and ironworks in its body watches over the route from Riverside Car Park into Pontypool. Around it, light-painting photographs made with young people and metal-foil relief work led by Kate Verity tell more of the town’s industrial story.
Flying Start — Blaenau Gwent
Nine centres, nine different paintings. I worked with Flying Start staff, parents and children to develop nature murals around the people and places at each site. At Cwm, the children’s drawings helped take the painting in a particularly lively direction.
Lliswerry — Pontfaen Shops
Dozens of conversations helped shape a mural bringing together local wildlife, the wetlands and Llanwern’s industrial history.
Greening Maindee
Local plants and wildlife became the starting point for this mural alongside a gardening scheme in Maindee. I worked with the Greening Maindee team and drew on workshops with pupils from Maindee Primary School to develop the design.
Llanhilleth — Community Mural
The young people of Clwb Llan helped start this mural. We explored what Llanhilleth meant to them in workshops at the Miners Institute, then shared the ideas for wider community feedback. I brought those contributions together in the finished painting.
Parc Penallta — An Ecology Room
At Parc Penallta, the painting surrounds you—and some details only appear when the lights go out. I worked with the rangers to make a room they could use to explore habitats, pollination and how other animals see the world.
Milton Primary — Murals & Augmented Reality
Children’s ideas became connected habitat murals, from underwater scenes to Welsh woodland. A later sunflower mural supported Milton’s Ukrainian pupils and families. Then a separate project opened the walls up again, as children made animation, sound and video to bring the paintings to life.
Newport Medieval Ship — Anamorphic Mural
How do you convey the size of a medieval ship when the vessel itself is in pieces? I worked with the Newport Ship team to create a painting visitors can step into, using 3D ship models and a carefully chosen viewpoint to make the vessel appear to project into the room.
