This one was very much a pinch-me moment. It's the biggest my work has ever been printed, and seeing it wrap around a building on Marylebone High Street is pretty spectacular.
I was commissioned to create the hoarding artwork for 1 Marylebone High Street — a beautiful 1940s corner building in the Harley Street Conservation Area, currently being redeveloped into luxury workspaces. My brief was to represent the building as a detailed line illustration, which would then be printed at scale across the entire three-storey hoarding.
To make it a little more personal, and to hint at the life the building is about to have, I added characters into the windows. A small touch that I think gives the whole piece a lot of warmth.
Having never worked at this scale before, I painted the original artwork at a large size, to give it the best possible chance of retaining it’s hand-painted charm. It was a bit of a task scanning it with my A4 scanner, but where there’s a will there’s a way.
A huge thank you to the team at Howard de Walden Estates for the commission and for trusting me with something so visible. The measurements, and plans for the hoardings changed a few times before and after installation (turns out building sites can get pretty complicated) so the project couldn’t have happened without the help of Joshua Mowll and Moss Inc 🙏
I loved this project. It's a brilliant example of how artwork can add humanity and interest to what-could-have-been a bland property redevelopment.
Photos by Maciek Kolodziejski and Moss Inc.
If you're a property developer, estate manager, or development company looking for bespoke hoarding artwork in London, I'd love to hear about your project.