Fab yet mysterious new art work at Bowes Park Station

Forgive the poor, wonky iPhone shot of one of them (don't want to spoil the surprise if you haven't walked past yet) but the new artworks on Bowes Park Station footbridge are marvellous - who's responsible and how long are they staying?

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Permalink Reply by Val Turpin on November 9, 2014 at 11:43

I walked over the bridge yesterday and to my amazement I saw that the painting of 'Shakespeare', which is what I had dubbed the painting, has sadly been vandalised with graffiti, he seems to have grown an eye patch. I can only thing that this act was committed by kids who thought it funny to do this, but I think it a shame because there are people trying so hard to make a difference to Bowes Park and some idiot wants to mess things up. While I am aware that these three paintings on the bridge are no masterpieces, yet they do bring some colour and interest to the area and whoever has done this should be ashamed of themselves.

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Permalink Reply by Barry Holloway on November 12, 2014 at 15:19

I see that the painting of Sir Hugh has been restored, but the treatment has failed, he's still cross eyed.

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Permalink Reply by Toby Nation on November 12, 2014 at 20:53

It's a miracle.

Thanks to Caroline from BPCA for removing his eye patch after consulting with the artist who created Sir Hugh and the others. Looks much better, even if he's still a bit scary...!

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Permalink Reply by Kevin on November 13, 2014 at 21:50

Would it make sense for these paintings to at least have a perspex sheet over them to stop further attempts to ruin them? Next time we might not be so lucky in being able to simply over paint the damage.

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Permalink Reply by Richard McKeever on November 14, 2014 at 0:56

Here are the pics showing the successful restoration of Sir Hugh: Now back to his original state with pirate eye-patch and forehead graffiti tag removed.