SYR Mural
Commissioned by Mr Scott Young, to run the length of the Exhibition hall in the Global headquarters of Scott Young Research Ltd, a Multinational company leading the field with Cleaning Systems. The brief was to create a work of art giving the viewer an insight into some of the ways in which nature helps to clean itself. The Mural is 21m in length by 2.2m high, and was completed by myself in just 39 days over a period of 10 weeks.
To begin with the idea was to illustrate just how tiny and fragile our planet Earth is within our own solar system.
The next stage of the mural is an aerial view of Earth showing the lakes, rivers and seas, which help to cleanse and bring life to our planet.
After a dramatic example of water in action in the form of a waterfall, we move onto . .
. . . the rainforest, where the trees produce oxygen and help clean the atmosphere. If you look carefully, you will find the fruiting bodies of funghi which help to recycle organic matter and feed the nutrients back into the plants and trees.
Finally we move onto the plains of Africa where an elephant carcass is being torn torn apart and consumed by hyenas and vultures.
A close-up of the elephants leg reveals the activity of the insect world also feeding on the carcass, or involved with it's ‘recycling’. The microscopic bacteria highlighted within the blue circle are the final stage in this depiction of how nature manages it's own 'clean-up' operation of planet Earth.
