cowabunga

Combine my love for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, a striking female portrait, and a gritty Cheltenham tunnel wall, and you get the Cowabunga mural! This piece features a beautiful female face wearing a TMNT head as a hat—a playful and quirky idea I couldn’t resist bringing to life during my visit to Cheltenham.

Painted in just a few hours, the mural blends nostalgic pop culture with a modern twist of empowerment. The wall’s rough, artex-like texture made the process a challenge (and left my knuckles bloodied), but the result was worth every scrape. The things we do for art!