Created in collobration with Elaine Guilding.
Two themes were ordered:
1. Jesus in today's community (Shirehampton) depicted on the left side, and 2. the great Bristol-based Methodists John Wesley and Francis Asbury. Wesley was the founder of Methodism, and his minister colleague Asbury sailed from Pill in 1771, crossed the Atlantic and founded the prolific Methodist church in the USA (depicted on the right side). The final design was the result of exhaustive discussion between Bill, Elaine and the vicar Jackie Quarmby.
In the scene on the right side Asbury is depicted sailing past Shirehampton and out of the estuary at Avonmouth under the M5 bridge into the sunset bound for the New World, while John Wesley preaches to locals. In the scene on the left side a contemporary-looking Jesus is depicted in jeans on a park bench on today's Shirehampton Green sharing food with homeless people.
Two themes were ordered:
1. Jesus in today's community (Shirehampton) depicted on the left side, and 2. the great Bristol-based Methodists John Wesley and Francis Asbury. Wesley was the founder of Methodism, and his minister colleague Asbury sailed from Pill in 1771, crossed the Atlantic and founded the prolific Methodist church in the USA (depicted on the right side). The final design was the result of exhaustive discussion between Bill, Elaine and the vicar Jackie Quarmby.
In the scene on the right side Asbury is depicted sailing past Shirehampton and out of the estuary at Avonmouth under the M5 bridge into the sunset bound for the New World, while John Wesley preaches to locals. In the scene on the left side a contemporary-looking Jesus is depicted in jeans on a park bench on today's Shirehampton Green sharing food with homeless people.
The whole mural
The left-hand side: a scene on Shirehampton Green
The right-hand side: John Wesley preaching, and Francis Ashby & other methodist missionaries sail for America from Pill 1771.
The middle section. The calligraphy, cross and both figures painted by Elaine Guilding
The left-hand side: a scene on Shirehampton Green
the woman, baby, granny, buggie and the blonde girl painted by Elaine Guilding
this part painted by Elaine Guilding
The right-hand side: John Wesley preaching, and Francis Ashby & other methodists missionarys sail for America from Pill 1771.
Francis Ashby's ship sails for America via Avonmouth 1771
