Sheffield mural award winner gets stuck into Pride of Yorkshire art trail

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A lady with brown hair, wearing a yellow jacket, on the left hand side of the picture. A lion sculpture behind her to the right, with a red and yellow painted mane, and a blue and green body, with a parrot painted on it.

Street Art Sheffield’s ‘Best New Mural’ winner, Emma Barnsley, was one of over 60 artists selected to paint lion and lioness sculptures for the Pride of Yorkshire Art Trail.

Miss Barnsley’s beautiful mural can be found in Greenhill, S8 7BP, and many utility boxes she painted can also be found in the S8 area.

A green utility box with a badger painted on it, in a woodland scene.
Emma Barnsley's art tag, @emmabarnsleyart on the side of one of the utility boxes she painted.
Two utility boxes, the left one painted blue and green with a fox painted on it, as well as some flowers and a butterfly. The box on the right has a blue background with an owl painted on it, and a moon.
Emma's winning mural on the side of a building. A painted image of a bird, two daisies, a bee on one of the daisies, a butterfly, and some plants on a blue background.

The trail celebrates Sheffield’s Children’s Hospital Charity’s 150th anniversary and follows in the footsteps of the Bears of Sheffield (2021), which Miss Barnsley also worked on, and the Herd of Sheffield (2016)

150 lions and lionesses are being painted by the artists, alongside 150 lion cubs, painted and adopted by schools and community groups across South Yorkshire, to raise £2.8 million for the cause.