\n Scott King, 56, was commissioned to install murals at the train station in a bid to make the area more visually pleasing.\n<\/p>\n
\n He is a well-known street artist who goes by the name Aroma One.\n<\/p>\n
\n Starting on the mural this week, the artwork took two days to complete and features a wonderful painting of a 156 Super Sprinter train.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr King said: “The train I painted was chosen by the council.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I picked the 156 Sprinter because they were the boat trains in the 1980s before the electric went in.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I picked a black and white theme as I thought it would be more appropriate for the lovely old building it is painted on.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Beautiful – the finished mural at the train station (Image: Scott King)\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr King will be adding more murals to decorate the station over the coming weeks.\n<\/p>\n
\n He said: “I’m in the middle of a commission at the station.\n<\/p>\n
\n “There is another archway to the right hand side where I will be painting a train guard in an 80s uniform.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It will be dedicated to my dad who used to wear that uniform and worked on the sprinter trains.”\n<\/p>\n
\n The murals were commissioned by Community Rail.\n<\/p>\n
\n Ivan Henderson, tourism boss for Tendring Council and part of the Harwich Tourism Group, said the mural is great for bringing people into the area.\n<\/p>\n
\n Mr Henderson said: “This mural is really lovely and adding to what we are trying to do in Dovercourt and Harwich.\n<\/p>\n
\n “It is part of our overall regeneration of Dovercourt and the High Street to make sure people realise Dovercourt is where all the shops are.\n<\/p>\n
\n “This is part of us making a connection between the seafront and town centre to make it easier to promote the High Street as a visitor destination.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Scott King, 56, was commissioned to install murals at the train station in a bid to make the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":450279,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[6225,6485,6486,1120,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-450278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=450278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/450278\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/450279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=450278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=450278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=450278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}