Village bus shelter gets artistic makeover

A village's bus shelter has been given an artistic makeover marking the coronation of King Charles III.

Landulph Parish Council commissioned an artist to bring the shelter in the village to life after it had been damaged when a vehicle collided with it.

Artist Gill Mannings Cox has recently completed the work which includes depictions of people in the community and views in the area.

Parish councillor Claire Tagg said: "I am very very pleased with it. And every time you sit in here and look at it, you see another little detail, which is really fun - a little bird or a boat on the river."

She said the community was asked for suggestions for the bus stop, and a number of people put them forward.

"We had quite of a lot of people who had ideas, but Jill drew some pictures and presented them to the parish council, and the parish council said 'yes we can spend some money on this," she said

Ms Mannings Cox from Cargreen was paid £700 for the work, which took about three months.

"The drawings evolved as I worked," she said.

"The idea that the parish council had was that it would be a nice place for people to sit and chat and watch the world go by and I wanted it to be cheerful, happy colours."

On the outside walls of the bus shelter there are images representing winter and autumn, while inside it has a spring and summer feeling, moving onto late summer with apple-pickers and cider-making.

Chair of the parish council Martin Worth described the artwork as "amazing" and said there had been a "positive reaction from the community".

One local person who was surprised to be featured in the design was Ron Norris, who regularly walks past the shelter with his wife and his dog, Teddy.

He said: "I was very pleased.

"I was watching the lady doing it each day as I walked by. One day she said 'I will be adding your dog today'. It's lovely... just the job. And she has put my wife in and myself so I'm very pleased."

About 30 miles away, a better-known bus stop has also had its latest makeover.

The Fowey Pretty Bus Stop is painted about twice a year, and its latest edition marks the 60th anniversary of the first spacecraft to land on the moon on 31 January 3 1966.

Artist Sarah Worne said "The vision was a big moon and starry sky then one of my friends who I painted it with this year said 'one small stop', so we do have a little bus [on the surface of the moon].

"It just made it perfect for the bus stop."

Mrs Worne said: "I figured it would work, I didn't really have a plan, I didn't sketch it out first or anything like that.

"It is always inspired also by what tins of paint we have in the sheds and what colour range we have and we seem to have lots of blue, so it was all meant to be really."

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