MUM'S MURAL IS A CLOAKROOM HIT

It has taken months of painstaking work but now a spectacular mural is near to completion.When mum Suzanne Kitchen volunteered to help brighten up the cloakroom of Nailsworth Primary School, she perhaps didn't quite realise what she was taking on.

Suzanne asked the children what they would like to see painted on the wall - they chose an Egyptian mural.

"It's a subject the children study in Year 3 and I thought it might be simple to paint," said Suzanne, whose ten-year-old daughter Myllie is in Year 5 at the school.

That was at Christmas. Now seven months on the mural is almost complete - and it's been anything but simple, she admits.

"But I've loved doing it and working in the school. The children are interested and talk to me about it and have given me lots of encouragement."

Suzanne had already painted a small mural in the school's library depicting pirates, when headteacher Chris Raymond asked if she would be interested in taking on the much larger project of brightening up the cloakroom.

Her 10 ft by 15 ft design is copied from a 4,000 year old papyrus drawing in the British Museum.

"That's been quite an exciting concept - to copy the work of some man who was alive 4,000 years ago," said Suzanne.

"It depicts the scribe Hunefer amongst various Egyptian gods."

"It's been fascinating. I'm looking forward to doing more next year."

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