The painting spreads it's wings on a shiny day in the Baltic Triangle. Photo by: Isak Bronseth
Paul Curtis says he wanted to make something interactive.
Liverpool is a city full of street art. On walls, bins, windows, and many other places. Many of these paintings are in the Baltic Triangle. Perhaps the most famous one is Paul Curtis’ ‘’For all Liverpool’s Liver Birds’’.
The painting depicts the huge green wings of the city’s Liver Bird. It was Curtis’ first job as an artist.
‘’Originally, I was going to just paint a woman’s face. Then I changed my mind. I wanted to do something that allowed people to be
a part of it. People can stand in it and take a picture. I’m not the first person to think this way but it got immensely popular at the time’’, Curtis says.
The painting was finished on the 10th of August in 2017. According to Curtis’ own website he spent ten hours from start to finish that day. It’s now become a tourist attraction where people take photos between the wings.
‘’I was going to paint the wings white. But I needed something new. That’s why I decided to make them green like the birds on the Liver Building itself’’, Curtis says.
More is coming up from the interview with Paul Curtis on the Baltic N’ Dock. Stay tuned!
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