Children teach pensioners how to graffiti (From Oxford Mail)

Children teach pensioners how to graffiti

4:10pm Saturday 17th July 2010 in

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SOME slightly older than usual Bicester residents have been getting to grips with graffiti paint.

Thirteen pupils from King’s Meadow School gave users of Bicester Day Centre a lesson in spray painting.

The 10-year-old students paid a three-day visit to the day centre to help users create a mural, called A Perfect Day.

A whole host of different images, including the Good-Ship Lollypop, talking planets, gardens, music and cupcakes now adorn the day centre’s dining room wall.

Project producer Rebecca Ritchie-Timms said: “The medium was new to everyone — there was an excited buzz at the centre, and it was wonderful to see people of such different ages being creative together and enjoying each other’s company so much.

“This project has been an important step in bringing Bicester’s generations closer together.”

Oxfordshire County Council spokesman Catherine Blaxhall said: “This project was great for users of the centre and the feedback from them about it has been hugely positive and I’m sure that the mural will be a talking point at the centre for years and years to come.”

Earlier this year the children were taught basic spray-painting methods by artists Graham Meads and James Loraine-Smith during a visit to the school.