Just over three decades ago Hilary Machell came to Lancashire to go to university.
She had been brought up in Biggin Hill on the Kent/London border, but was smitten by the red rose county where she studied for a degree in Theatre Studies and English Literature at Lancaster University.
Today the county is still her home. She said: “My parents were both Londoners and my mother was from Sunderland, so I’ve a foot in the north! I came to Lancaster University in 1990 and I never left.”
Hilary Machell pictured outside the Harris Museum, Art Gallery and Library in Preston Photo: Neil Cross
THE WINNING mural designs for a Lerwick public art project have been revealed following a vote.
More than 640 people took part in the online vote for the the LOCUS art trail, picking their favourites for two different sites in the centre of town.
The two winning designs, by Gavin Renshaw and Cobolt Collective, will be painted in July or August.
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Renshaw’s work will be painted on two adjacent walls on Commercial Street, on the side wall of Bayes and the side wall of No.88, down Peterson’s Closs.
“I wanted to keep my design quite playful in response to the brief yet still have a deeper undercurrent of meaning hidden within the two walls,” he said.