Artist Steve Chapman (stevexoh) is the mastermind behind our wonderful Bee Friendly Awards. He runs stick painting workshops that bring people together through creativity and conversation. When the supersize hive at Watford Junction Railway Station, Hertfordshire needed an update, we knew it was the perfect white canvas for some of Steve’s thought-provoking black line designs.
Category archives: Art Commission
Summer Solstice 2025
Over the Summer Solstice weekend (21–22 June 2025), we hosted two glorious days of creativity, community and connection with nature. Families, artists, and visitors of all ages gathered in the 30-hectare nature reserve of Samphire Hoe, to take part in a packed programme of artist-led workshops, performances, and hands-on activities. Interactive artworks emerged across the site …
Tasha Potter Art
“The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it.” We worked with Yeovil-based artist Tasha Potter to create a bee-friendly mural at GWR’s Chetnole Railway Station in Dorset. Tasha transformed the waiting shelter at the station with an impactful mural that demonstrates how vital bees and pollinators are to …
Petra Schmidt & Dante Villa
Our beautiful Bee Box was designed by Petra Schmidt and created by craftsman Dante Villa. The box is packed with honey jars, each filled not with honey but by something – a foodstuff or product – that we would not have without the work of honeybees. The lid of every jar contains pollen – a …
Oxford Grafitti Crew
We worked with GWR to commission this 12m-long mural to brighten up a shipping container positioned in the long-stay car park at Oxford Railway Station. The Oxford Graffiti Crew celebrated the university city and its many wildlife habitat projects, including the installation of bee-friendly planters across the railway station.
One Degree Academy
At Gordon Hill Railway Station, we ran a project to engage both school children and the travelling public in looking for and identifying the fauna and flora that can be seen at the station, by encouraging observation, and recording what it seen. We worked with Key Stage 2 students at One Degree Academy who got to …
The Bee Friendly Skep Project
Where heritage craft meets modern art as a launchpad for new conversations around the importance of creating habitats for bees, pollinators and all wildlife. What is a skep? A skep is a basket. A bee skep is a basket for bees – so a traditional form of beehive. They are typically made from wicker or …
Eleanor Brown, The Nose
A communal artwork created by the people of Walton-on-the-Naze and installed as part of a planter project at the station. Poems and pyrographics were made by Tendring Writers Group, Faye Rathe, Shorefields School, Clacton Coastal Academy, and The Colchester Refugee, Asylum Seekers and Migrants Network (RAMA), through workshops hosted by Eleanor Brown at The Nose. …
Niamh Walshe McBride
In 2024, we commissioned artist Niamh Walshe McBride to create these pollinator stained glass window panes for the waiting area at Leyton Underground Station, where we also have a bee-friendly wildlife garden.
Hayley Cove
We commissioned Somerset-based printmaker Hayley Cove to create an atmospheric card that could be used for sending Christmas greetings and more. Her design, Beehives in Winter, stole our hearts so much that we had to have it made into a limited edition print. Available to buy in the BFT shop, the Beehives in Winter greetings …