The Pirate Mural Large mural - acrylic on plaster 6m long x  5m wide x  2.2 m high The children's treatment  room in Newcastle's Freeman Hospital  was basically an off-white box with the eye being drawn to the corner of the room to the tubes and pipes and and strange instruments by the bed. This room is mainly used to treat very young children and it was thought that this environment was too stark and intimidating for them so I was asked to produce something lively and colourful to distract from the instruments in the corner