A NEW mural will soon be unveiled in a community garden space at Weston-super-Mare railway station.

The ‘Biophilia’ artwork will be brought to the Open Return Garden – a project led by Go Feral – on platform 2 of the town’s railway station.

‘Biophilia,’ an opera by Shruti Bhoyar, is the thought that humans possess an innate tendency to seek connections with nature and other forms of life.

This inspired a project engaging with the home education community in Weston, taking place at the Open Return Garden at Weston train station, summer 2024.

The mural by Shruti BhoyarThe mural by Shruti Bhoyar (Image: Contributed)

Providing gardening, growing, and creative sessions for children and their parents, sessions included plant and insect identification, planting, growing and harvesting, making herbal tea-bags, exploring creativity with natural materials, storytelling, making a bug hotel and more.

Bhoyar, created a series of new artworks for the train station developed in response to this project to communicate a love of life and all living things expressed through gardening, growing, creating, connecting together.

Sam Francis, co-director, Grow Feral, said: “This project has been a joy to work on and develop with support from GWR in connection with the Open Return Garden at Weston train station for a season of nature-based creative activities for the home-educating community of young people and parents that participated so enthusiastically, and we are delighted with the final artworks by the super talented Shruti Bhoyar.”