untitled mixed media

Work

Short Pump Park Mural

An outdoor museum of Short Pump’s history, hand-painted on three concrete walls and the ground between them in Short Pump Park, Henrico, Virginia.

The finished mural at Short Pump Park, three painted concrete walls standing on the black-and-white painted map, seen from the grass
The three concrete walls before painting, the old yellow paint peeling in patches, in the middle of the park

This is what the walls looked like when the county asked me to fix them. The printed panels were peeling off. I painted the new pictures right onto the concrete.

The three walls stripped, repaired, and primed white, ready for paint
The concrete slab and the three walls from above in May 2025, before the painting, the work area fenced off
The front of the three walls in July 2023, before the painting, in their old yellow paint
The back of the walls in June 2025, stripped and primed white, before the painting

The right side of each slider is a 3D render of my design. Every client approves a mockup of the finished work before I paint.

The three walls finished, seen from the lawn, the concrete slab around them still bare
The concrete slab between the walls being painted black, seen from above, the three walls finished around it
The slab from above, black paint poured on the bare concrete and spread toward the left end of the slab
The whole slab painted black, seen at an angle from above, the three painted walls standing on it and the tools on a drop cloth beside it
The finished walls and the painted map from the park path, white property lines and names on the black slab

The black ground is an old county map of the Short Pump crossroads. I painted the property lines and the owners' names in white.

The wall painted from the county’s photographs, an old Short Pump storefront in grayscale
The wall painted from old engravings and maps, a Native woman and a village in grayscale, the painting wrapping around the end of the wall
The finished mural from above, the three walls standing on the painted map of the land the park sits on