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6 St Edward’S r h u b a r b

Mural Memories

me paint it as she often does. She is a long-established artist in her own right. I was commissioned to do the mural by the Warden, David Christie, and I believe that Anne Brooks may have had a hand in this. I did several projects over a period of weeks, all of which were given to the Warden to choose from, and the painting work was completed in less than a month. The painting is mainly a homage to Kenneth Grahame and EH Shepherd, who illustrated The Wind in the Willows , but it contains other things as well. Going from left to right – the young Lawrence Olivier is shown as Ariel ‘putting a girdle about the Earth in forty minutes.’ The big house on the back left is an extrapolation of the drawing of Toad Hall

f e a t u r e s

In an interview with artist tim Plant (B, 1957-1961), the editor of r h u b a r b discovers the history behind a unique commission on the walls of St Edward’s Dining Hall. Like the rest of the dining room’s walls, it was once covered with sports shields, yet in 1997 that changed forever: I was the sole artist responsible for the work, but my wife Ana Maria helped