Loving working with @malones_leith on this new staircase mural for their venue, opening on Saturday.
So far it’s some old favourites from
father Ted and new favourites from the Derry Girls
The whole place looks amazing.!! #fatherted #fatherjack #mrsdoyle #derrygirls #commercial #projects #artwork
Loved painting this mural for new venue that’s just opened, ‘Mackays on the Mile’ (in Edinburgh old Town.)
Very much inspired by the Devils celidh in Tam o shanter, a mixture of booze , magic , music and wild crazy dancing !
I tried to make every corner full of adventure and a feast for the eyes!
#scottish #scottishdancing #celidh #commercial #artwork #project
The Ogilvie School Campus mural now up in their lobby, hung it today.
Delighted with how it’s worked out.
Really sunny and optimistic. Bringing a spot of joy to the corridor.
Well done to all the pupils. The whole school had a brush with this one!
Half day on a Friday was a perfect opportunity to sneak in and hang it undisturbed. There is going to be a wave of excitement in the building when they come back next week! #tree #treeoflife #community #nature #chrisrutterford #artwork #flowers #schoolmural
Great week this week working in beautiful Peebles @kailziebiglodge painting a stairwell into a mountain biking and nature themed mural for their new upmarket bunkhouse. The basic idea was that when the humans leave, the animals don their helmets and start pedalling.
I was brought on board the project by @claryallaninteriorsolutions who are doing a fabulous job down there.#mountainbiking #mountainbike #bigair #peebles #nature #woodland #deer #angel #bikers #bikersofinstagram #forestmagic #forestpainting #stairwaytoheaven #stairwaymural #mural #landscapes #commercial #artwork #animals
The Nature mural I have created for Braidburn Valley Park`s Friends with the advanced higher pupils from Firrhill High School is now complete!
Some of the artists came down yesterday to see the finished article.
Seen here with their own animals., the detail on the mural is brilliant.
I designed it to have impact from a distance but layers of joy up close.
Delighted how well this is being received by visitors , it is already becoming a joyful focal point for the park.
I love it that little kids and their parents are being irresistibly drawn up the hill for a closer look. Not to mention dog walkers and all!
The owl at the front looks like a stage now.
Maybe it’s time to get some musicians involved 😊 #community #artwork #animals #scottishmurals #firrhillhighschool
The Jolly Beggars -.. Another illustration for the Robert Burns chess board booklet.
The poem takes place on a drunken night of debauchery in an inn and focuses around a series of characters who take it in turns to speak.
A maimed soldier turned beggar, his lover doxy a buxom female pickpocket, a pigmy fiddler and a tinker - all on a wild night of drinking.
This was a lot of fun to paint- the main thing was to make sure it felt like the characters had sunk a shandy or two!
One of Burns more controversial masterpieces due to its strong social commentary. It was only published after his death #robertburns #thejollybeggars #chrisrutterford #commercial #historical #artwork #scottishpub #fiddleplayer
Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great Chieftain o’ the Puddin-race!
https://robertburnschessset.com
Working with the creators of a luxury Rabbie Burns Chess set at the moment - they’re using some paintings from my archive but also some new work
Including this Address to the Haggis illustration.
This chaps is obviously from the Ronald Macdonald school of oration!
#robertburns #haggis #taeahaggis #scotland #burnssupper #commercial #artwork #projects #
New feature wall for Malones Edinburgh based around their new Triple Cask Irish Whiskey.
The Celtic deer and intricate woodland scene is core to their brand .
I painted the deer in this malty orange palette as though it has a fire in its belly.
Like it’s just knocked back a large dram and is eyeing up another.
It was really fun to paint something full of detail and interest but also really clean and legible.
Interested to see if whiskey sales rise in the bar over the weekend … I’d be powerless to resist this 😂 #malonesedinburgh #irishwhiskey #celticdeer #commercial #animals #artwork
This mural is pretty much complete now - I think my favourite bit is the otter French kissing a trout in the wetland section.
It’s been really magical being on site at RSPB Loch Leven as thousands of pink footed geese arrived. Coincidentally at the exact same time as I painted the goose in my mural- he acted as a herald ! #artwork #commercial #projects
The RSPB Loch Leven mural is really coming together. Fun and games today with @lubilykan , Saffron and Rona interacting with some of the painted characters… here’s hoping the stairs see plenty of this silliness in the coming years! @rspb_love_nature #artwork #chrisrutterford #nature #stairmural #frogprince #squirrel
One of the real challenges in the tunnel was the start.
How to transition from the opening of the poem full of fairies and witches and almost instantly into a section that represented the long military involvement in the area within a few meters?
The challenge was to maintain the whimsy and momentum of RLS poem whilst creating a thoughtful
And reverential feeling in the military section.
The solution i came up with was in the field of poppies painted by multiple hands - but also in a new gang of forest animals leading into the poppies and onto a lone piper to bring pathos and music to the scene, and a second train carrying the troops away from Colinton and onward toward their destiny.
As a little extra, hidden in amongst the foliage a fairy pulls a little magic along the tunnel from the start and into the threshold of the poppies.
#poppies #remembrancesunday #remembrance #piper #lonepiper #chrisrutterford #tunnel #artwork #lubilykan
I thought I’d share some detail shots from ‘Hare tae Golf’, the sculpture @Lubilykan and I built for @thebigharetrail , now running in North Berwick.
He was a labour of love, we would quite happily have kept him.
He had an adventure at the @scottish_open but he is now happily back frolicking with the other Bunnies on the trail for another 9weeks. Well worth a day out ! #thebigharetrail @pikebambridge @chris_rutterford @leuchiehousebreaks #hare #haresofinstagram #golf #hickorygolf #lubilykan #lubilykancouture #scottishart #sculptures #artwork
A big day for us yesterday - @lubilykan and I handed in our completed hare.
We’ve been simmering it gently for the last few weeks but it escalated predictably into a feverish frenzy of bunny boiling as the deadline weekend arrived.
We can’t wait to show the world what we have made when they launch the trail officially in a few weeks ! @sculptures #sculptures #artwork #projects @pikebambridge @thebigharetrail @lanabambridge
This was one of my favourite ever commissions. A Father Ted mega mix on the stairs at @MalonesEdinburgh. They are opening up for indoor table bookings now - tables available from 17th.
I was SO excited, a joy to paint something you truest love😀
Done through the night over a fortnight whilst the pub was being fitted out for launch
My favourite part was getting to paint Father Jack.
He’s parked in pride of place right outside the ladies toilets. Couldn’t think of a more appropriate retirement for the old rogue!! #fatherted #malonesedinburgh #commercial #artwork #fatherjack #grahamnorton
Iain and Maureen delighted that their cow Morag is back where she belongs, she’s become something of a Balerno institution- I’ve fitted her a new waistcoat and Daisy chain, the weather spoiled the last one.
All fresh and ready for another few years dyke leaping ! #animals #cows #cowsofinstagram #tartan #tartanarmy #artwork
The big launch on Sunday was for the latest incarnation of the Edinburgh icon - the Kyloe Restaurant cow in time for the beer gardens opening and the hospitality industry starting to stir back to life.
This time we themed it round Hope and rebirth,.
Designed and made with my partner Lubi Lykan Couture & Embroidery to be a joyful, optimistic and full of fun. Recognising how we’ve all changed, but in the fervent hope that the good times and all the times we’ve maybe taken for granted in the past will be back soon.
The cow has an overall rainbow coat in keeping with the time but has purple tartan legs, the traditional colour of mourning.
Recognition of what’s happening and what we’ve all been through.
It’s festooned with smaller illustrations, nostalgic selfies of the cow with his friends in bygone times. Reminiscence of all the events that used to be seasonal fixtures for us all and that we missed so much in the last year and a half.
The busking in the Edinburgh festival, drinking with his friends, going to the rugby at Murray field, shopping, going to gigs, snogging at Hogmanay, birthday parties, shopping for pants with your friends
It’s the stuff of life. she’s outside The Huxley now! #huxley #kyloerestaurant #chrisrutterford #kyloecow #rainbow #lubilykan #commercial #animals#artwork
Fresh signage for the Papa Westray Market Garden. Designed to be cheery and motivational particularly at this time of the year when life is sprouting. It’s the promise of things to come.
I took time out to do this for a few days and there was a joyful moment there when my studio felt just like the fresh foods isle in supermarket!
Of course I was eating hobnob biscuits and treacle toffees. But it all LOOKED healthy. #commercial# #artwork #garden #signage