My Wildflower has finally been landscaped (only waited 10 months 🤫) and yeahhh she looks beautiful! Went to capture some footage for a little film about it with @friedpeppers coming soon 🌼🌼🌼
Finished my mural at Horfield library! thanks Merny and Pancake 💕for helping me get the painting done. Here’s a lil peek, I’ll tell more soon about the project and story of the painting but in the mean time Big thanks to Paul and Diana, everyone at the library, friends of Horfield library and Bristol Council 🙏 🖼️🖼️🖼️
4 years and 3 miscarriages later, we finally got our baby pancake!
I don’t usually share much personal stuff on here, but this has been such an all consuming part of my life for the last few years, now that our little girl is here and I’m taking some time off, I thought I could talk about it a little bit. I know so many people go through similar loss and suffer in silence, maybe it’s too painful to talk about it.
Having a miscarriage is horrendous. Experiencing recurrent miscarriage was a deeply lonely and sad time, I was taken to some dark places that at times, I honestly couldn’t see the light out of.
A sadness grew inside me that manifested with intrusive thoughts and I hated myself for feeling jealous or negative about things I used to feel such joy for. It’s horrible when you feel like you have no control over your body or mind. It’s easy to fall down the dark hole. BUT painting and drawing and doing things I loved helped me a lot. I felt comfort in being outside, looking up at the sky and trying to grab at some perspective.
There were moments when hoping seemed so hopeless that now I still can’t believe she’s real. It’s easy to forget what we went through to get her here, so I thought I’d take a moment to acknowledge the contrast of heartache to happiness and put it out there, maybe other people going through something similar might not feel so alone.
I know how unhelpful it is to see someone else go through fertility troubles with a positive outcome because that’s their story not yours but please free to message me if you want to chat about anything to do with this, I became quite informed on the topic and knowledge is power after all. ❤️
You can find Wildflower at the entrance to the Urban Quarter in Hengrove, Bristol.
If you ever go for a swim at the Hengrove Leisure Centre, look left and you will see it in the distance, growing up through the concrete. 🌼🌼🌼
Making this sculpture was a dream come true! it took a lot of work and patience to get it in the ground, read all about the journey on my website link in bio or here /projects/wildflower
#publicart #wildflower #publicartbristol #billycolours #alexgodwin
✨Be Courageous Be Kind✨
Floor painting I did last year outside Redfield Educate Together Primary Academy for Bristol City Council.
I delivered stamp making workshops with the school council to design the artwork to go on the pavement made up of puzzle pieces representing how we fit together in our community / the world.
Some things the kids made for the puzzle pieces; mushroom for growth, bee for nature, squiggle for movement, heart for love, stars for universe, leaf for calm, question mark for curiosity.
Thanks kids and the school and @bristolcouncil for this nice opportunity to make a cool project and paint on the pavement on one of the hottest days of 2025 🌞🥵
‘Old Dog, New Tricks’
Paint on plywood
2026
My piece for The Walls Have Eyes at @gratefulglasgow now on!
GRATEFUL 🥲 to be invited to participate in this character based show with an excellent line up of admirable artists.
My piece is inspired by a badge I got when I was was 5 that I’ve kept for 36 years. It felt right to bootleg it in this moment for a few reasons:
On a basic level it looks nice and cute, when you go a bit deeper it’s a comment on the use and reuse of well known characters on the street and if you paint the same character over and over again you are more likely get ‘famous’. It’s a rework of the saying, ‘you can’t teach an old dog new tricks’ which is probably right if you are talking about people and wrong if you are talking about dogs - they are actually innately good learners! 🐶
Thanks @kmgyeah 💖 for organising this cool show and the lads at Grateful Gallery for an inspiring space, go go check it out!
A painting I did at the end of last summer for @lookup.portsmouth that I havn’t got round to putting on here because honestly, sometimes a certain app makes me want to poke my eyes out 😵💫
It’s a painting about going to do a painting and I am holding a box of paint, not a box of pizza though all interpretations are valid 👧
Merny’s piece follows mine and who knows what that’s about 🥲 - we will have to ask him! @mernywernz
Footage from the floor painting project I did alongside @lucyoatees for the (controversial 😬) East Bristol Liveable Neighbourhood scheme earlier this year.
We collaborated with Briarwood School and Barton Hill Academy hosting creative workshops to come up with the designs for the paintings.
Brairwood is a school for children with profound learning difficulties, Lucy and I devised sensory workshops based on the book “WOW said the Owl”
Barton Hill Academy is a primary school right next door and we did stamp making workshops encouraging children to imagine cool ways they could travel to school.
Lucy and I painted the floor on some unusually hot days in feb, Lucy was heavily pregnant and it was hard work but she was taking it all in her stride 😍🌸 I was an emotional wreck as I was trying to stop breastfeeding and my boobs felt like they were going to explode.🤱
And that’s the story of that! 🌝✨
I am so pleased to share this new video by @friedpeppers about Wildflower, my first large scale public sculpture.
With the support of Walter Jack Studio, I was involved in every stage from research and design to fabrication and installation.
I want people to find beauty in unexpected places, like a flower growing through a crack in the pavement.
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Wildflower is a site-specific sculpture shaped through a community engagement program with Avon Wildlife Trust @avonwt . The large-scale flower nods to the Hengrove Mounds nature reserve, overlooking the Urban Quarter where it now sits. It invites playful interaction, encouraging green exploration and celebrating nature in our cities.
Client: Tilia Homes
Project Consultant: Diana Hatton
Commissioner: Walter Jack Studio
Technical Assistance: @pchanningdesign
Structural Engineer: Structural Solutions
Fabrication: @tlatter13
Galvanising and Painting: @cardiffgalvanizers
Transportation: Baber Transport
Video: Luis Veloso @friedpeppers thanks 🙏 it’s fantastic ✨✨
#publicart #wildflower #billycolours
