Sandal Library unveils special nature mural after local artist, Beth Morgan, collaborates with community
A new mural has been unveiled at Wakefield’s Sandal library after a collaboration between a local artist and the community.
Artist Beth Morgan held workshops with the local community to inform the design and create the nature-themed wall art.
Beth said the feedback has been: “Really positive. It brings a smile to people’s faces [and] brightens up the space as well.”
The Friends of Sandal Library group wanted to create something that was nature-related and that would involve the community.
Beth, who has previously created murals for The Art House, Artwalk Wakefield and Wakefield Council, said she held two workshops with members of the local community, during which they were asked to draw what they might find in a community garden.
Beth added: “I then took those away and utilised them in the designs.”
Beth took inspiration from the different colours and animals contributed by participants of the workshops and reimagined them in her own style to inform how the mural would look. The work took three days to draw on the wall using pencil, and a further five days to complete the painting.
Posting on their Facebook page, the Friends of Sandal Library said: “The mural in the library garden is finished. We are all delighted with the result and hope you will be as well. It helps brighten up the garden even more and I hope anyone visiting the library will pop out for a look.”
Beth’s mural can be found library garden wall at Sandal Library, Sparable Lane, Wakefield.