{"id":92141,"date":"2025-10-21T13:01:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:01:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/92141\/"},"modified":"2025-10-21T13:01:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-21T13:01:10","slug":"liverpool-street-artist-finally-achieves-dream-to-own-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/92141\/","title":{"rendered":"Liverpool street artist finally achieves ‘dream’ to own home"},"content":{"rendered":"

Stewart WhittinghamNorth West<\/p>\n

\"PaulPaul Curtis<\/p>\n

Paul Curtis is a famous street artist but he says it has taken six years to achieve his dream of home ownership<\/p>\n

A street artist who has become famous for painting murals on a city’s streets has said it is a “dream” to have “finally” bought his own home in the area.<\/p>\n

Liverpool artist Paul Curtis has painted nearly 300 public pieces in the region including Liverpool managers Bill Shankly and Jurgen Klopp, forward Diogo Jota and late Hillsborough campaigner Anne Williams.<\/a><\/p>\n

But despite resounding recognition for his work the 47-year-old said it had taken him six years to achieve his goal of home ownership.<\/p>\n

He told the BBC: “It’s a dream come true to own my own house back home.”<\/p>\n

Mr Curtis added: “I’ve wanted to get my own home on Merseyside since Covid really.<\/p>\n

“But it was a lot tougher than I thought.<\/p>\n

“It is not easy when you are self-employed but it has finally come true.<\/p>\n

“I’ve got a three-bed house so I’ve got room to store paint and things like that.<\/p>\n

“I might use some of it as a studio at some point as well.”<\/p>\n

\"PAPA Media<\/p>\n

District nurse Erica Daly stands in front of Curtis’ famous artwork ‘Liver Bird Wing’<\/p>\n

“It’s been a long time coming but I’m lucky that my work has taken off,” Curtis said.<\/p>\n

“I’m now in a position where I can actually turn things down and pick and choose what I do.<\/p>\n

“I am very fortunate to be able to do this for a living.”<\/p>\n

\"PaulPaul Curtis<\/p>\n

Curtis painted a Diogo Jota mural after the Liverpool forward died in a car crash<\/p>\n

\"MattMatt McNulty\/PA<\/p>\n

Curtis also painted a mural of Olympian Katarina Johnson-Thompson and Paralympian Jack Hunter-Spivey<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Stewart WhittinghamNorth West Paul Curtis Paul Curtis is a famous street artist but he says it has taken…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":92142,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-92141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=92141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/92141\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/92142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=92141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=92141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=92141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}