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No sooner was Stephen Michael King's mural on the wall of Wingham Newsagency finished, than the beginnings of another piece of vibrant street art had started.
If you have tried going down the pathway to the back yard of the Garden Grub in the past week, you would find your way blocked by artist Mykey Carlier sandwiched between scaffolding.
Mykey started work on the mural on Wednesday, March 27, and estimates it will take around another two weeks to complete.
To date he has been working on the side wall, and is yet to start on the wall above the side awning, and the back wall gracing the Garden Grub's popular back yard.
This mural is not part of the Wingham Place Making project. Building owner, Belinda Robertson has been in discussions with Mykey about creating a mural on the building for years.
"I've been talking to Belinda for about four years. She wanted me to paint the wall," Mykey explained.
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"I think the momentum from the Place Making Project has helped push it over the line. I've been talking backwards and forwards with Belinda over the years saying 'we could do this, we could that, what do you want to do?'.
"I wanted to do the entire (side) wall but there's some heritage issue with the brick. And it's really quite hard to paint on brick," Mykey said.
The mural is representative of the rolling green hills and blue skies of the Manning Valley, but people are puzzled by the squares that make up the landscape.
He's thinking of a doing a competition for $1 a ticket "guess the number of rhomboids in the mural", rhomboids being the four sided shapes, or "happy little colourful square shapes", as he calls them, with the winner getting a print of the work.
This isn't Mykey's first mural. He has done two large scale commissions for hotels in Sydney. He also designed the mosaic outer walls of the new learning centre at St Clare's High School in Taree, along with architect Russell McFarlane. The tiles for that project were hand coloured to specifications and made in India.
Mykey's mural is drawing plenty of comment and questions from passers by, and he's happy for people to drop by and say hello while he works.