Coming To A Barn Near You

Apr 27, 2014

Artists Will Barras and Amy Winstanley taking a break from painting at East Knockbrex Farm, near Newton Stewart
Artists Will Barras and Amy Winstanley taking a break from painting at East Knockbrex Farm, near Newton Stewart

Visual art festival Spring Fling’s Rural Mural series of painted murals around the Dumfries & Galloway region.

Farmer Iain Service, pictured with his old barn at East Knockbrex Farm, near Newton Stewart
Above: farmer Iain Service with his old barn at East Knockbrex Farm, near Newton Stewart

Artist Ali Wyllie at the 'vortex' of a seascape mural at a disused electricity sub-station at Stranraer Harbour
Above: artist Ali Wyllie at the ‘vortex’ of a seascape mural at Stranraer Harbour

Murals have appeared on barns and cottages, and many on unexpected ‘sites’ including a boat, a tractor and even a horse rug.

Artists Denise Zagadlo and Fraser Gray at their 'bonfire' mural at the gable end of a cottage in Keir Mill, near Thornhill
Artists Denise Zagadlo and Fraser Gray at their ‘bonfire’ mural at the gable end of a cottage in Keir Mill

Alice Francis at her goose mural at the gable end of a barn at Torr Farm near Auchencairn
Above and below: Alice Francis at her goose mural on a barn near Auchencairn

Alice Francis at her goose mural at the gable end of a barn at Torr Farm near Auchencairn

Pictures for Spring Fling and published in this week’s press, including: The Times, The Scotsman, The Herald and Herald Online, BBC Online and Farmers Weekly.

Follow the Rural Mural website and the #SFRM and @Spring_Fling twitter feeds for up-to-date information on many more unexpected murals which will pop up over the region before the Spring Fling weekend on 23rd to 26th May.