This is the second post showing murals from the town of Basildon. There is a market area with many different stalls and small cafes and dotted around are miniature murals of the various stallholders. They are very cute and I managed to get a couple of photos of the actual people.
Marta and Kay from Marta’s Chimney Cafe. Such a gorgeous little cafe where I enjoyed a delicious home made Chicken and Veg Soup. In the summer they dress up in these cute red dresses.
I thought these would be appropriate for the Public Art Challenge, Lens-Artist’s Double-Dipping and Thursday Doors. Hoping the pingbacks work!
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Very clever Alison – loved the real people with their painted images! Thanks for double-dipping with us this week!
Thanks Tina
Excellent. Great murals.
How cute are these, Ali! What fun! We had a giant mural on one wall in the Tulare County Office in CA. One of the secretaries’ daughter’s pictures was used as a model little girl enjoying a world of books and their characters. It was fun and adorable.
Thanks Marsha
You’re welcome. It made me want to come right over. 🙂
I love this idea and execution and everything in this post. Buon appetito!
Thanks so much Manja 🙂
It’s amazing how interesting it is to see people walking away from you – for me it seems that there is the hidden challenge of imagining them from the front.
Yes its an interesting concept ..because you would only see them from the front
I love that the murals are about real people there! What a lovely collection 🙂
Thanks Meg, it’s a great advert
That’s a fun idea and great advertising for those small businesses.
I thought so, and the ones I spoke to were pretty chuffed
These murals are such fun. Thanks for sharing 🙂
Thanks Ruth 😀
Such great murals of real people. I bet those people are thrilled with “their” murals.
Thanks Sami, the ones I spoke to were very chuffed
I so love these Alison! Definitely a must for me to see the next time I visit.
Thanks Teresa 🙂
The murals are delightful. I think this is a great entry for Thursday Doors and I wish I had seen it earlier. I did add it to the recap. I hope you will share more photos with us in the future.
Thanks Dan, I am always on the lookout, I love a good door 😁
🙂
What a clever idea to make the murals so personal.
Yes I thought so too 🙂
How fun to meet the real people that inspired these images! And I love the way they are painted in miniature on those doors 🙂
A great way to bring the market people together 🙂
How utterly charming. There is no end to the creativity people have.
Yes so nice for the community
Thanks for your comments 🙂
Lovely murals.
Thanks 😀