Biggin up my mum’s mad art skillz

So I have to say a massive congratulations to the artist Rydal Hanbury (my mum) for winning a competition at the Tower of London, which essentially meant that one of her drawings got blown up to over 90ft high to cover the central tower while it’s being refurbished for the next three years!

We all went down to the unveiling this morning, and there was a surprising amount of press coverage there, in fact you can watch the lunchtime report from BBC London news here. I was also very interested to find out that apparently getting a picture blown up and printed to that size costs £35,000! (good job it wasn’t in colour?!)

More info on the BBC news site + check out my photo’s on Flickr

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3 Comments so far

  1. Ruairi April 11th, 2008 11:40 am

    Hey Ben thats great news, congrats to your mum.

  2. Audrey April 11th, 2008 1:18 pm

    Wow – impressive piece of work. I caught a glimpse of it on the news at 10 last night. Send my congratulations to your mum :)

  3. ben reynolds April 11th, 2008 5:58 pm

    nice work mrs hanbury!

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