Murals for Holiday Parks

A selection of murals painted for holiday centres across Lancashire, Merseyside, Wales, and the rest of Mainland UK and Southern Ireland.

Fun Shop - ParkDean, Pendine Sands

This pop up shop was created to sell toys and gifts to children in the entertainment venue. I designed the theme, layout, character placement and signwork and painted the MDF to look like tongue and groove timber panelling.

The staff crawl into the shop through the little door! When the shop is open the window board is removed from the inside.

A close up of the removable window panel.

A close up of Millie. This work is quite old. Parkdean have since replaced Max and Millie characters with The Starland Krew.

Max painted on the side of the shop.

The hatch for staff entering the shop painted to look like rustic wood.

Playroom Mural - Pontins, Camber Sands

A fun bright mural painted for Pontins featuring a few of their characters playing with balloons.

Action Pack Jack and Zena the Zebra balloon mural

A close up of Action Pack Jack and Zena the Zebra.

Megamix Mick and Florence the Ostrich painted wall mural

And Megamix Mick and Florence the Ostrich.

'Trick N Treats' - Pontins, Camber Sands

Trick 'n' Treats joke shop painted wall mural

I used to be given a free rein at Pontins to create crazy design ideas. Each centre had a toy shop in their venues called Trick N Treats. Originally painted pink and yellow, I gave these castle themed shops a makeover by painting the brickwork more realistically and adding the Pontins characters dressed in Halloween fancy dress. For this particular shop I also made scary characters for the roof and painted more spooky things in the windows.

Here you can see the spooky guests on the roof (MDF cut outs), spooky guests painted in the windows and the spooky Pontins characters that I redesigned in a spooky manner!

More spooky fun! I apologise for the terrible quality of the photos. The room was dark and cameras weren't so good 25 years ago!

Zena the Zebra airbrushed wall art Trick 'n' Treats Pontins

A close up of Zena dressed as a witch.

This mural décor was painted with a combination of brushes, rollers and airbrushes.

Action Pack Jack Pontins painted wall art mural

Camo Wall Decor - Pontins, Camber Sands

Pontins wanted something to brighten up the entrance to their hire shop. A camouflage paint effect was very quick to paint and suited the outdoors equipment available to hire.

Another angle of the right hand entrance wall.

Camouflage wall decor painted in an entrance

This décor was quickly painted using three colours and a brush on a background basecoat.

The other side of the entrance painted up in camo paint style too.

Toilets - ParkDean, Pendine Sands

For this makeover I had to paint the ladies and gents toilets with graffiti style artwork. I painted everything with an airbrush but had to mask up literally the whole of each room. Floor, walls, mirrors, toilet dividers, etc etc. On top of this there was barely any ventilation so the paint mist hung in the air and it got difficult to see anything. Not the nicest of jobs and I wouldn't do another.

Shop - Center Parcs, Whinfell Forest

I was given a pretty open brief of decorating this kiosk area with the three services that were to be on offer.

I painted panels behind each category to help strengthen the design and to divide the information.

I painted a few cartoon faces in styles that are popular with face painters.

To the right are a few painted samples of the temporary tattoos.

Hand painted lettering on the back wall.

A painted example of hair braiding .

Fast Food - Pontins, Camber Sands

This was one of my earliest pieces for Pontins. It probably wouldn't be wise to use Pontins characters to promote fast food these days but we live in different times.

Zena the Zebra dressed as a diner waitress.

Fast food takeaway painted wall art mural

A view of the whole area.

Cave Mural - Pontins, Camber Sands

This was the entrance to the outdoor activities booking office at Camber Sands Pontins for abseiling and zip wires etc. The cave effect was quick to paint with a mini spray gun over the top of a sandy coloured base coat.

Another viewpoint from further away.

A view from the other side.

Spiral Walls - Pontins, Camber Sands

This wall décor was amongst my first work for Pontins in 1997. I did quite a bit in that year for the start of their refurbs.

A simple design but a lot of cutting in and it took many coats of paint to cover well. If I was to do this job today I would project the spirals to get them perfect.

Another area.

Another spiral wall.

Shark Mural - Pontins, Pakefield

Painted wall art shark mural in a holiday centre

The General Manager of Pakefield Pontins was a huge fan of tropical marine fish. Over the period of his management he had me painting lots of fish themed artwork all over the holiday park!