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Mural featuring giant beach balls unveiled

Elliot Ball
BBC News, South West
Love Newquay The mural has been painted on a three-storey building that is largely white. There are large beach balls painted within the mural with a man walking his dog on top of one. In the bottom left is a painting of a traffic warden fixing a fine to the building.Love Newquay
The mural depicts the RNLI, dogwalkers, hospitality workers and traffic wardens

A mural depicting lifeguards, dogwalkers, hospitality workers and traffic wardens has been unveiled covering a three-storey building in a Cornish town.

The installation has been painted on a bar at Gover Lane in Newquay and is part of the MUQY Street Art Walking Trail.

The trail began in 2024 and this is the fourth mural to be created in the town centre, with various people set amid a scene of giant bouncing beach balls.

A spokesperson for Love Newquay said there had been "major enthusiasm" for the project.

A mural on the side of a building depicts an older man with a long white beard, wearing a hat and smoking a pipe, as he mends a fishing net. He is illuminated by two candles in what appears to be a workshop or cabin
One of the other murals depicts a fisherman working on a net

The new artwork was created by renowned large-scale mural artist and designer, Josephine Hicks.

Ms Hicks has previously worked with brands such as Clarks and Bombay Sapphire.

Her Newquay mural has been inspired by local themes and stories, and was delivered by Newquay BID and funded by Cornwall Council's Town Delivery Fund.

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