Artist’s mural gives hope in Knaresborough

22nd March 2021
Pictured local resident and bird watcher Katie Plowright-Hall takes a look at the swallow mural on the side of a building in Cheapside, Knaresborough
Picture Gerard Binks — 22nd March 2021 Pictured local resident and bird watcher Katie Plowright-Hall takes a look at the swallow mural on the side of a building in Cheapside, Knaresborough Picture Gerard Binks

An artist’s lockdown love of nature has soared to high acclaim.

Sam Porter is putting the finishing touches to his countryside scene mural this week which he has been painting for six days in Cheapside in Knaresborough

The 38-year-old fine art and sculpture print making graduate said of his work, commissioned by householder Lindsey Bradley: “Obviously there has been loads of attention and really amazing feedback.

“I had hoped that people would embrace it, which they have far more than I thought they would. Me and Lindsey hoped it would have that impact.”

The commission follows a tough past year for Sam who, as with many artists during the Coronavirus pandemic, saw his work dry up. But he started to plan his next project.

“During the first lockdown business slowed down quite a lot,” said Sam.

“I had been painting murals for years, more intensively for the past three or four years.