Mural-King Street

ARTIST: ANDREW WALTON
DATE: 2019, 2024
DOORYARD ARTS FESTIVAL

Driven by curiosity and exploration, Andrew Walton enjoys teaching, traveling and creating across contexts. Over time, he has learned to enjoy experimenting, trust in the process, and to go big with his ideas.  Walton’s design life now spans international education, building, tattooing and spray paint, particularly drawn to projects that are vibrant, bold and engaging to individuals and communities.

In 2019, Walton started painting a mural in downtown Woodstock because he wanted to liven up the town but his efforts also turned into a way to raise money for a young woman who needed a doublelung transplant.  The mural depicts Island Park, the former  location of Woodstock's Old Home Week. Its features also include a ferris wheel, a circus tent and the St. John River. In 2023, Walton returned and completed the scene with an eclipse inspired image of an astronaut.

The artist’s work of a fiddlehead can be found on Main St., in Keirstead Court..

Andrew Walton is from the Woodstock area and has been working as a teacher in China.

second phase photo to be updated