'He could brighten up any wall!': Jude Bellingham mural appears in Wolverhampton

Anew mural, dedicated to one of England’s premier football players, Jude Bellingham, has been painted on a disused building in Wolverhampton.

The mural, which depicts Stourbridge’s Jude Bellingham striking a victory pose while wearing his star England shirt, was painted on the side of an out-of-use building on the A454, in Lower Horseley Fields, yesterday afternoon by talented 35-year-old Wolverhampton artist, Lucy Danielle.

Using spray paint and emulsion, Lucy said that she created the mural to ‘help brighten up’ the area and to pay tribute to one of England’s greatest players.

She said: “I asked the owners of the building if they minded if I paint this mural to help brighten the area up, and they gave it the okay.

“When I was painting it, people were stopping to have a look; everyone really loves it.”

Lucy said that the mural took around seven hours to create, and that she has had ‘nothing but good feedback’ through the process.

She said: “It was great. It took around seven or eight hours altogether. He’s a Black Country-born hero of the sport, so it felt right.”

“I’ve had nothing but great feedback, really; he could brighten up any wall. I must have had hundreds of people driving by and beeping their horns and cheering. It’s been really amazing.”

Lucy said that the hardest part of the mural was judging how the paint would react in the heat, and that she’s now on the lookout for her next project.

Lucy said: “I’ve been spray painting for around 21 years. The hardest part of this one was judging what the paint was going to do in this heat. Yesterday it was really hot, luckily, a nice guy gave me a bottle of water to cool down.

“As for the next project. We will have to see how well England does in the World Cup, won’t we?”

Lucy is also known for her painting in tribute to the late former Wolves star Diogo Jota at the Ash Tree pub on Dudley Road, Wolverhampton.