THE Bristol street artist known as Inkie recently dropped into visit Cooper Associates County Ground based bat makers Millichamp and Hall, and by the time he left two and a half hours later he had produced a colourful cricketing mural for one of their walls, writes Richard Walsh.

The idea to add a splash of colour outside of their retail shop came from owner Rob Chambers who has been producing handmade top of the range cricket bats out of English Willow to to supply to customers across the world, since 2000.

“We get so many visitors who call into watch their bats being made and to purchase goods from us that I thought that it would be good to have something colourful and based on the M&H theme to greet them when they arrived.

“A lot of those who visit us like to have a picture outside the shop with their bespoke bat and this provides an ideal backdrop.

“I made contact with Inkie, who like Banksy is a Bristol based graffiti artist and he was happy to come down and produce the mural, which was done entirely freehand using spray cans of paint.”

To contact Millichamp & Hall log onto  www.millichampandhall.co.uk or call into see them behind the Somerset Cricket Museum at the County Ground in Taunton.