After feedback from the masterplan, a face-to-face consultation, and a Go Vocal vote, we understood that your most preferred art style for the Waterlooville Street Art was Nature as you can see from the votes below:
Nature – 31% - 242 votes
Fine Art – 19% - 145 votes
Stencil – 15% - 113 votes
Graffiti Lettering – 10% - 80 votes
Pattern – 10% - 79 votes
Photo realism – 8% - 61 votes
Cartoon – 7% - 57 votes
Based on this feedback we have been working in collaboration with Art Up CIC to choose the right artists and styles for four street art locations in Waterlooville town centre.
All four locations have now been painted by the following artists. You can read more about them, their work and why Art Up CIC chose each artist for each location:
Andy Council is well known for creating ‘composite beasts’ made up of architectural landmarks & recognisably local references. His work is an amalgamation of elements that together create a new form or scene with a narrative running through it. Illustrative, colourful & thoughtful Andy Council’s specifically researched, regional content engages viewers & invites ownership of the mural in the community. In a bustling moving environment such as the precinct the often complex design offers the viewer a chance to relook at the art & discover different elements on subsequent visits. This horse is made up of many parts & buildings in Waterlooville.
The location was chosen for this piece of art due to it’s prominent and central town centre location in the Curzon’s Room’s car park.
Bold, graphic & eye catching, Jeru’s work often incorporates figures engaging with humanised animals - her technique & obsession with what appears to be a half tone or crosshatched line stems from an interest in the 17th century artist & engraver Claude Mellan who developed a distinctive & technically complex style of engraving which employed parallel lines of varying widths & spacing to create shading, tone & depth.
This location was chosen as it has busy foot & vehicular passing traffic due to being on a busy bus route, but it’s not somewhere people seem to linger. Jeru’s work has impact & will add an energy to an otherwise uninspiring street corner.
Portsmouth based artist FARK has developed a visual language based purely on colour, line & positivity. Lately his childlike fascination has been focused on chattering birds, landscape & rainbows. His work is increasingly iconic & admired by people of all ages. As this wall is adjacent to an established children’s ‘role play/cafe’ business it was essential that the artwork was able to compliment, not compete with the existing branding - anything too textural or loose might conflict & distract the children & adults visiting the venue.
Not only was the location chosen to be next to the ‘role play café’ but another area next to a busy car park with high footfall traffic.
Sophie Rae is a fine art printmaker who predominantly uses water based masonry paint, brushes & rollers when executing her mural art. Sophie loves to use shapes and colour to transform environments. Sometimes she draws inspiration from plants, layering, enlarging, and playing with abstraction until a sweet balanced composition emerges. Sometimes it’s more geometric and abstract forms. Whatever the motif her final designs are balanced and contemporary.
The walls surrounding the approach to this underpass were a deceptively large area to paint but successfully using blocks of bold colour, inspired by natural forms bought life to the uninviting stairway.
This location was chosen as it links the town centre to the retail park and is a well used in connecting the two spaces.