Graffiti artist invited to revamp Morley school’s playground

BBC A graffiti artist who created a Derby County mural ahead of the team’s promotion to the Championship has completed another at a primary school in Derbyshire. Darrell Wynne, known as Soapspray, painted the mural on a blank wall at the back of Morley Primary School near Ilkeston. The artwork depicts the school logo of an owl, along with the school’s motto “The Morley feeling”. Soapspray said he enjoyed the opportunity because he would eventually like to teach children how to do graffiti. Mr Wynne balances his artistic side with his day job as a tree surgeon. His Derby County mural depicting the club’s record goal scorer Steve Bloomer in an underpass beneath Pride Parkway was completed within one day. Mr Wynne was contacted by school development officer Samantha Jackson after she saw some of his work on Instagram. “At this time of the year the children would normally be studying Banksy, another graffiti artist, not local at all to Derby,” she said. “We have our own graffiti artist who is local to us so I thought what better opportunity than to ask him to come down and create us our own unique piece of artwork.” Mr Wynne completed the...