BUOYS - pics from the final photoshoot

The project is completely finished now, and both tunnels are open so people can now see the buoys on their way to North Shields.

Here are a few final articles;

South Shields Gazette

Evening Chronicle

The Journal

North Tyneside News Guardian

Scroll further down this page to see pics of them being painted, and moved.

St Georges Primary School Mural

St Georges Primary School forest mural, painted on an outdoor classroom.

The day the buoys were Installed!

The Tyne Tunnel buoys are now on site! There is still some landscaping work to be done around them, but at least they are in the right place now, and arrived in one piece too (well, 3 pieces)!

The Tyne Tunnel should be re-opening in a couple of weeks, so I'm looking forward to seeing them in the same way as everyone else will.

Here are some photos of the installation;

Tyne Tunnel Buoys Progress

They're finished!


I've had a good 2 weeks of painting the buoys at Northern Protective Coatings in Bill Quay. They are still there at the moment, being given a coat of anti graffiti varnish before they are taken to the Tyne Tunnel site next week.

After a lot of preparation, developing and finalising designs, I'm really happy with the way they've turned out, after being increased in size and painted on something which is such an unusual shape. The paint is great quality too, and nice and bright (Cromadex).

Here are some photos of the progress of the buoys, including a couple of newspaper articles...

North Tyneside News Guardian

South Tyneside Gazette









And the finished pieces;

Cyclist

Lifeboat

Coble

Surfer

Priory

St Mary's Lighthouse

The pins ready to be painted and installed on site.

And this is the view I had from the workshop.

So they will be getting picked up on Monday 31st to be installed on site.

White Mere Primary School

outdoor shed, using popular storybook characters.



and a comic book mural in the cloakroom. This was a competition for the children, and the winner had their comic strip design painted on the wall by me!

North Tyneside Tyne Tunnel Buoys

I have been commissioned to work on a public art project, painting 3 marine buoys, which will be installed at the northbound exit of the Tyne Tunnel. It's a very exciting project, and will be seen by thousands of drivers every day travelling from South Tyneside to North Tyneside.

The buoys are around 10 ft tall, and will be hand painted in my own design, which depicts local scenes and activities from North Tyneside.

The local papers have been interested in the project, and the South Shields Gazette even did a feature page on me :-)

Here they are with some classic puns...

The Journal

The Chronicle

North Tyneside News Guardian

South Shields Gazette

A double page feature in the South Shields Gazette.

North Tyneside Council newsletter


and a link to the BBC local news page http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-14436258


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This is the design which will be painted directly onto the buoys next week.

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Last week, on a beautiful sunny day, they were finally moved from their home at the Stephenson Railway Museum in North Tyneside, and went to AM Fabrications in Blaydon to be fixed up, cleaned up and welded in order to be installed on site.

They are now at Northern Protective Coatings in Bill Quay, Gateshead, being shot blasted with a sky blue undercoat. I'll be in their workshop next week to paint them!

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Here are a couple of articles showing the buoys being moved;

News Guardian

South Shields Gazette