Candleriggs! Isn’t that a nice name for a street?
I was heading back towards Glasgow’s Bus Station, trying to make the most of my diminishing time. I knew that I was in the area of the old covered cheese and fruit markets, now developed into Merchant Square. A quick ogle at the array of restaurants and it was time to move on.
The tip of a nose, and then an eye, caught my attention as I rounded the corner. Across a gritty, scruffy, car-parking area I was looking at the most entrancing mural. It covered the entire wall.
And told a whole and glorious story!
The call of the wild
All of nature
within a single whole
Don’t you love this little creature?
And his sad-eyed friend
Then there’s this inquisitive fellow!
Keeping a watchful eye
For berries?
While amongst the toadstools
The mushrooms lurk
Amid gentle, pink flowers
I thought it was incredibly lovely and stood transfixed, wondering how and why it came to be here. Then I squeezed between the cars, trying to capture the whole of it. I left with a huge smile on my face on a dour Glasgow day.
Click on individual photos for a larger image. I wish I could show you my wonder wall, but the best I can manage is a link to DiscoverGlasgow.org , courtesy of my good friend Jude . Sam Bates, take a bow!
restlessjo 
Amazing wall art!!!
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It’s beautiful, isn’t it? I was staggered 🙂
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Just one word, Jo! WOoOOoOOoOooOoW. What a wonderful job you have done of that wall .. have been at the bus stop so many times … last time must have been 6 years ago.
Fantastic art … so beautiful and you captures does it magnificent. You have just brought it’s greatness … to us. Excellent job. Never seen it before.
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It’s lovely, isn’t it, Vivi. It made my heart sing 🙂 Hugs, darlin’!
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That is absoutely incredible!
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I wish I’d taken a shot of the whole, Tanya, but I was busy manoeuvring around cars 🙂
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Gorgeous
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I love it, Eunice (like so much else I saw in Glasgow) You feeling ok? I’ll try to drop by later. 🙂
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Doing OK pain bad at PT but like she said one week out of surgery 🙂 today much better
HUGS
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Fabulous, how did we miss all that!
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It’s a big city! 🙂
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Bizarre! A good find. I wonder how long it’ll take for these murals to be defaced with political slogans and football allegiances?
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Now there speaks the cynic in you, Rich 🙂
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The detail of this is amazing 🙂
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Good, in’ it? 🙂 Says she, who can’t even do stick men!
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I used to draw heads with legs (no bodies) until I was six…
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Brilliant pictures,, so realistic.. 😉
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It’s a really amazing wall! Thanks for your time 🙂
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WOW! This is amazing wall art, fasci,nated me dear Johanna, Thanks and Love, nia
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Glad you liked it, Nia 🙂 I knew you would! Hugs!
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beautiful.:)
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Thanks! Yes, it really is 🙂
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What a marvellous mural – I must try and look for it next time I am there.
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I’m presuming it was done as part of the Merchant Square development, Elaine. They’ve done an amazing job, whoever… 🙂
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I know they have been developing that area over the years, and it’s quite a ‘buzzy’ vibrant part of the city with lots of restaurants and cafes (I believe, rather than having first hand experience), so I really must go and take a look. I may have to take a trip out by myself next time I visit my mum.
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The restaurants looked a bit posh for me but nice use of the building. (they had the Grand National on big screen!) I liked the look of “City Merchants”, over the way. There’ll be a pic to follow…some time! 🙂
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Looking forward to it!
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That is just fantastic Jo and you have captured it so well. Viewed the ‘Hangus’ last night and as you said we fared quite well. Most unusual 🙂
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It was brilliant, David. My only regret is that I didn’t step back and take a picture of the whole- cars and all. Too busy avoiding puddles. 🙂 Thank you!
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Marvellous! I’m quite ‘into’ finding different street art at the moment, some is well executed, some not. Well done for noticing this one, and of course the thing with street art is its transient nature…hopefully this one stays awhile, unadorned by other people’s scrawls
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There was a lot in Glasgow, Sue (did you see the tiger on my Monday walk?) I was going to do a post on the different ones but I really felt that this one was something special and deserved its own ‘slot’. 🙂
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I did see the tiger, and you finitely made the right call giving this one its own slot…. Looking forward to seeing more! 🙂
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Very nice murals.
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I loved it, Newsie 🙂 Many thanks for your frequent visits and my lovely ride to the top of Table Mountain in the new style cable cars.
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The absolute delight of stumbling across something wonderful. It beats searching for known things. Thank you for having eyes that see!
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And thanks for sharing my journey 🙂
I will get to your email reply- I promise. I loved all the information.
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It is quite a work of art and you’ve done well to capture it for us. I’m a huge fan of street art and this is a joyous piece. I find it amazing that something like this can be produced on such a scale and with such great effect.
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I’m not always into graffiti, Debbie, but this was something else. I keep meaning to look in Google and see if I can find some facts. I presume it’s part of the Merchant Square development. Totally blown away by it 🙂
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very entertaining.vw
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Glad you liked it 🙂 Many thanks for commenting.
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🙂
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how incredible to find this treasure Jo! Every creature so perfectly beautiful in its wild state, yet here in a scruffy carpark watching the city!
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Exactly, Christine 🙂 I simply loved it.
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what a magical work of art that is! it’s a happy piece of work as well and surely lightens anyone’s heart when they see it!
thank you for stumbling upon this treasure and then sharing it with us!
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Thanks, Lisa 🙂 Glasgow was full of surprises but this one knocked my socks off!
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We occasionally take a trip to Glasgow from Edinburgh to visit my partner’s cousin and I am so going to look at this next time we go
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Brilliant, isn’t it, Simon? Really, I found Glasgow to be an amazing city and I very much hope to go back. 🙂
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Its a great place and totally different to Edinburgh
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