A Liverpool artist has contributed to a major street art project in London to commemorate the WWI centenary.
Sophie Green, a freelance artist and illustrator with a studio on Hanover Street, has produced two sculptures of the New Routemaster bus for the Year of the Bus, which remembers how more than a thousand London buses were sent to the Western Front during the First World War.
Up to 60 New Routemaster bus sculptures will line the streets of London for the Bus Sculpture Trail, launched by Transport for London in partnership with London Transport Museum and London's bus operators.
A third bus has also been produced by Sophie's studio partner, fellow artist Kristel Pillkahn.
Kristel Pillkahn with her Routemaster bus, Spectrum Leon Daniels, Transport for London's Managing Director for Surface Transport, said: "I’m delighted that this sculpture trail will see the iconic London bus transformed into multiple works of art across the city."
Sophie has been involved in a number of high profile street art projects, including the 2012 Olympics Trail, Aberdeen Wild Dolphins and the National Literacy Trust Books About Town Trails.
She said: "My design for Dazzler was based on dazzle camouflage developed by artist Norman Wilkinson for use on boats during WWI, the asymmetric designs obscuring the boats shape, making them more difficult to target.
"Being a complex design much of the work was in the planning, masking large areas of the design before spray painting.
"Removing the masking tape to to reveal the design was as big a surprise to me as anyone, I’m extremely pleased with the results."
At the end of the project, each of the sculptures will be auctioned off for charity.
You can see more of Sophie's work at www.sophie-green.com
fonte: @edisonmarioti #edisonmariotti http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/watch-liverpool-artist-designs-bus-7909768
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