Dan Llywelyn Hall will lead more than 100 other artists who will paint the 53 Western Road trees on Armistice DayAn artist previously commissioned to paint the Queen is to lead a “mass painting” of a Sheffield street lined with trees facing destruction despite being designated living war memorials. Two artists will paint each of the 53 trees planted in 1919 to honour former pupils of Western Road School - now Westways - who died in the war. Jarvis Cocker fronts campaign to save Sheffield trees Read moreThe London plane, lime, sycamore and ash trees are registered by the Imperial War Museum and the War Memorials Trust as living war memorials. Another 27 memorial trees on four other Sheffield streets face felling. Sheffield council urged to drop plans to fell war memorial trees Read moreLlywelyn Hall described her response as spineless.

Source: The Guardian October 29, 2017 14:48 UTC