Discover the Stunning Murals of Concrete Canvas 2024 in Chelmsford

The 2024 edition of the Concrete Canvas festival has seen more murals painted across Chelmsford. A number of locations have added to the pieces created the year before.

Artists this year included Woskerski and Peachzz. Both painting large scale murals on the Chelmsford Market. They have added to the stand out work from My Dog Sighs in the same location during 2023. Other artists with permanent pieces include SNUB, Sprite, Sky High, Ed Hicks, Elno, Vane MG, Tash Creates, Roo, Tris and Shauna Blanchfield.

Vane MG painting next to another completed mural from Roo on Bellmead

Live Painting

As in the previous year, the weekend saw a community ‘paint jam’ in the town centre. Stalls featuring work from local artists were joined with artists live painting on boards. Apparan, Eyesaw and Brave Arts being some of the artists on show. Other artworks created included a number of pieces on electricity boxes around Chelmsford.

Ed Hicks painting next to Warhammer on Annonay Walk

Permanent Murals

Key painting took place on walls around the Chelmsford Market building. The area around Tindall Street the Stone Bridge and Backnang Square being other locations where a lot of the painting was taking place.

Chelmsford Market Building

The large concrete structure of the Chelmsford Market Building was one of the set piece locations of Concrete Canvas 2024. Huge murals from Woskerski and Peachzz were the standouts. However smaller eye catching works from the WOM Collective on the Bellmead side of the building also attracted a lot of attention.

Woskerski

Peachzz

WOM Collective Walls on Bellmead

The WOM Collective are a group of female artists who paint together across a number of various projects. Often as a large group and more frequently as smaller groups of artists painting together. For Concrete Canvas in 2024 Elno, Roo, Tash Creates, Shauna Blanchfield and Vane MG were part of the artists from the collective taking part.

Elno

Roo

Shauna Blanchfield

Tash Creates

Vane MG

Vane, Shauna and Tash by their murals on Bellmead

Chelmsford Mural Locations

Wooden hoardings close to the leisure centre on the riverside saw a few works painted onto them. Cryola, Gnasher and Eyesaw joined with Mr Penfold, My Dog Sighs who had already created permanent pieces around the town.

Andy Downes – Meadow Walk

Portrait of John Johnson by Andy Downes on Meadow Walk. He was an architect and designer of the Shire Hall as well as the Stone Bridge which sits very close to the portrait.

Ansley Randall – Tindal Street

Bright geometric mural on Tindal Street from Ansley Randell

BRT – French’s Walk (back of Meadows Shopping Centre)

A homage to Chelmsford Radio and Street Art culture from BRT

Caryn Koh – Parkway

‘I’ll be your Reason’ a work created by Caryn Koh on the side of Nedz Tattoo

Ed Hicks – Warhammer, Annonay Walk

A typically dramatic scene from Ed Hicks. This series of painting are works inspired by sublime paintings of the 1700’s and 1800’s. This piece featured the first time Hicks has painted lightening in one of his works.

EPOD – Parkway

EPOD’s mural on Parkway. His work another reference to Chelmsford’s claim to be the ‘Birth of Radio’

Eyesaw – Meadow Walk

The ‘Green Eyed Monster’ from Eyesaw on Meadow Walk

Jeru Nomi – Popworld, Springfield Walk

Ryca – French’s Walk (back of Meadow’s Shopping Centre)

Painting by Ryca featuring an as to be released character from an upcoming print series

Sky High – Legg Street

Letter based mural from SkyHigh on Legg Street

SNUB – Meadow’s Walk

SNUB’s piece on Meadow Walk on the back of the Meadows Shopping Centre

Spray Saint – Tindal Street

A nature scene from Spray Saint in a little alley off Tindal Street

Sprite –

Tris – High Chelmer / Bellmead

Painting from Tris on the corner of High Chelmer and Bellmead. It replaces an earlier work from Nomad Clan on the same spot

Paint Jam

The Chelmsford Concrete Canvas festival ended with a paint jam in the Bond Street Bowl in the town centre. It featured a small number of artists creating public works during the day. They were joined by stallholders from local artists to create a mini arts centre for visitors.

Apparan

Brave Arts

Curtis Creationz

Homage to Chelmsford as the ‘Birthplace of Radio’ from Curtis

Dave Towers

Eyesaw

Harkiran Kalsi

Lily 66

Ben Stewarts portrait of OG played by Mike Edmonds in the Time Bandits

The Concrete Canvas festival took place in Chelmsford from 11-19 May 2024 with most murals painted during this time. We visited the festival on 18 May 2024 with most of the works completed by this time.

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