AFTER four weeks of renovating, the first arm of the Canterbury underpasses at New Dover Road has reopened for public use.
Artist, Elisa Hudson, who originally painted the murals in 2000 to mark the millennium, completed the subway connecting the Odeon cinema and Fenwick’s last week and is set to begin the second stage in the next few days.
This morning graffiti busters sprayed the walls with a varnish resin in an effort to prevent anti-social acts being repeated.
However, while work begins on the second underpass, the completion of all three tunnels may not be until next spring.
Miss Hudson said: “We’re probably going to do one in the next two or three weeks and then the next one may be a project that happens in the spring when the weather’s better.
“So it will take through until next year to actually complete it all. It sounds like a long time but we obviously need to wait because paint isn’t going to dry during winter.”
Work on the second underpass is scheduled to be completed on November 1 and Miss Hudson is keen to put her own mark on the murals.
She said: “Initially it’s re-painting what’s there. However, some of the figures are quite small on the Canterbury Tales one and I was going to make them larger or just update them slightly and I suppose put my own stamp on it.
“Sometimes it’s easier to paint something completely new rather than re-touching what was there.
“I’ve got some proposals to completely re-paint if need be but it does depend on the damage that’s been done and our time constraints because it’s a public and highways project."
Artist, Elisa Hudson, who originally painted the murals in 2000 to mark the millennium, completed the subway connecting the Odeon cinema and Fenwick’s last week and is set to begin the second stage in the next few days.
This morning graffiti busters sprayed the walls with a varnish resin in an effort to prevent anti-social acts being repeated.
However, while work begins on the second underpass, the completion of all three tunnels may not be until next spring.
Miss Hudson said: “We’re probably going to do one in the next two or three weeks and then the next one may be a project that happens in the spring when the weather’s better.
“So it will take through until next year to actually complete it all. It sounds like a long time but we obviously need to wait because paint isn’t going to dry during winter.”
Work on the second underpass is scheduled to be completed on November 1 and Miss Hudson is keen to put her own mark on the murals.
She said: “Initially it’s re-painting what’s there. However, some of the figures are quite small on the Canterbury Tales one and I was going to make them larger or just update them slightly and I suppose put my own stamp on it.
“Sometimes it’s easier to paint something completely new rather than re-touching what was there.
“I’ve got some proposals to completely re-paint if need be but it does depend on the damage that’s been done and our time constraints because it’s a public and highways project."
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