{"id":695518,"date":"2026-07-16T21:26:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/695518\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T21:26:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T21:26:16","slug":"the-artists-behind-portsmouths-lion-trail-to-mark-100-centenary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/695518\/","title":{"rendered":"The artists behind Portsmouth&#8217;s lion trail to mark 100 centenary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\"><a href=\"https:\/\/prideofportsmouth.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/pride-of-portsmouth-map-june-26-aa-accessible-1.pdf\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The trail begins in, external<\/a> Paulsgrove and finishes in Southsea, with 45 lions and one unicorn statue to find.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Artists, included well-known local names and new talent, were asked to design a lion inspired by the people, coastline and heritage of Portsmouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">One of the artists involved includes Or Misgav, who recently moved to Portsmouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Or said painting a lion for the trail was a good way to give back to the city.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She said: &#8220;The city was so welcoming and it just invited me in, and I wanted to create something and give back to the community.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;So my lion is kind of a love letter for Portsmouth.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The lion she&#8217;s decorated represents data from the people of Portsmouth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She added: &#8220;I really hope people will come and engage with it because my piece is not just about just seeing it. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s about coming closer, looking at the data, and looking at it from different perspective.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The trail begins in, external Paulsgrove and finishes in Southsea, with 45 lions and one unicorn statue to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695519,"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-695518","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\/695518","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=695518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}