Borneo / July 2017
I spent the summer of 2017 travelling around SE Asia, painting wall murals. Here is a time-lapse video of one of the projects. I painted this with Madelene Bülow, and I am very thankful to her for her help, and her calming disposition in times of crisis...
This mural of a rhinoceros hornbill was painted behind the reception desk at a small beach resort near Lundu, in Sarawak, Malaysian Borneo. Madelene and I were staying there with other volunteers who were helping to get the place open to the public.
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Thanks to John and Leo, who own the beach resort, and to Willie, who was project manager during the construction and preparation phase.
PULAU TUBA / JUNE-July 2017
I was given two large walls to paint on the small island of Pulau Tuba, near Langkawi, Malaysia. The owner of the beach resort had no preference as to what I should paint, so I came up with this large abstract, and a family of walruses...
Enormous thanks to Madelene Bülow for her help with the abstract as there is no way I could have got it finished in time, had I been working on it on my own.
sri lanka / october 2016
In 2016 I took a sabbatical from work and went traveling. One of my first projects was to paint a small wall mural at a Buddhist temple in Sigeria, Sri Lanka. This was part of a volunteer programme I was engaged with for six weeks, prior to traveling across India and SE Asia.
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The head monk had very specific ideas about what he wanted me to paint, using the limited colours at my disposal. What he wanted is what he got; a monk sitting in the classic meditation pose in a natural setting.
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In the end, the head monk was happy, which was a terrific relief.
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