Painted across the shed that shelters Bournemouth's tourist road train, "Meet me where the sun touches the sea" is a large, colourful mural on Undercliff Drive, along the East Cliff seafront. Anyone strolling the promenade between the pier and the cliff lift is likely to come across it unplanned, a burst of hand-painted colour set against the ordinary seafront scenery of deckchairs, beach huts and sea air.
Behind the artwork
Ricky Also, who paints under the name Paintshop and is based on England's South Coast, produced the mural. Locally, his name carries weight beyond individual pieces like this: he also curates Bournemouth's Upside outdoor gallery, a changing collection of large-scale murals, and his seaside-themed work stretches along the coast as far as Worthing.
Seeing it for yourself
No ticket, entry fee or fixed schedule applies here, it's an outdoor wall that can be walked past at any hour, and it works best as part of a longer seafront walk rather than a trip made specially to see it. It complements Bournemouth's broader collection of public art and murals, a scene that has expanded steadily thanks to the town's Arts by the Sea festival and various independent gallery projects.
Modest in scale but genuine in character, it adds something real to the seafront, explore more of the coast and its public art in our guide to things to do in Bournemouth.