Yeovil Art Space is delighted to have been commissioned by the Quedam Shopping Centre to create an installation in the archway that connects the Quedam and Middle Street.

Walking the pathway in the town centre you can expect to see yarn bombing style colourful threads, mushrooms, tree branches and baubles, created by using recycled and eco-friendly materials.   It involved more than 30 Yeovil Creatives (Yeovil Art Space member artists) and 12 children aged 7-11 from our Saturday Art Club.

Artwork in the installation has been created by a collaboration between the artists Lupe Velazquez and Grażyna Wikierska, who created the large paintings and brought the installation together.  

The main focus of the installation is to bring colour and imagination to Yeovil’s public, creating something that makes people feel positive about themselves and the town. Not only brightening up the area for shoppers and visitors, we hope the artwork gives an uplifting impact to everyone during the darkest and coldest months of the year.

Artist Grażyna Wikierska tells us something about the ideas behind the designs in the work.  

“It was a great pleasure to work on this project. Yeovil needs more street art to brighten and cheer up the mood. I think it really has some impact when people see beauty around them. 

Nature plays a big role in the paintings. Mushrooms symbolise entangled life, calm reinforcement. Their seasonal ability to grow fast from the underground network is very promising and inspiring.  It symbolises rebirth, new beginnings, good luck, transformation, prosperity and enlightenment.

The circles in my painting represent spores, spores symbolise the spreading of love, kindness, conscious living to respect all life because all of us come from one source.”