Jenna completed a high-profile mural at Oxford Road, Reading, opposite Reading West station in September 2025.
Jenna completed a high-profile mural at Oxford Road, Reading, opposite Reading West station in September 2025.
The mural is a portrait of Oxford Road in Reading that is opposite Reading West station. Each of the elements represent the road, the people, the buildings, the culture, and the community. A public consultation generated over 200 suggestions for images to be included. Here is a list of the 62 pictures in the mural, many of them have multiple references, which were hand painted by me! Fruit and vegetables to represent the many shops in the road: watermelons; strawberry; banana; apple; cherry; onion; garlic; chili; and tomato, buildings: the Mosque; The Oxford Road Community School, The Pavilion, Holy Trinity Church, The Keep, Battle Hospital; books for the library; business and shops: nail varnish; barbers; wigs; make-up; cupcakes; coffee; croissant; pastel de nata; DIY tools; fish and chips; raw chicken (butchers); kebabs; fried chicken; curry; spices; baguette; burger; Indian sweets; celebration cakes; clothes shop; pharmacy; sushi; teeth (dentist); tattoo parlour; post box (post office and hair dresser, Nature: Prospect Park; Thames; fish; missing cat; meadow flowers; and chub fish, Culture: arts; sports; 72 languages spoken, Tubular Bells; Kate Winslet; Reading Festival; train ticket; No 17 bus; Elvis (the man and the music shop); balloons and kite and the words "The World in One Place".
On the 27th September, 2025 the mayor of Reading, Dr Alice Mpofu-Coles cut the ribbon for the mural "A Portrait of Oxford Road", opposite Reading West station. There were words from Councillors Karen Rowland, Wendy Griffith, Matt Rodda MP.
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