In a railway arch in Southwark, a street artist called Lionel Stanhope has made a Mural for the NHS staff.

You can find this artwork underneath Waterloo East railway station, which is around the corner from St Thomas’ Hospital.

The artwork was completed on Friday 1st May, with the artist using social-distancing guidelines throughout.

Network Rail got the idea to get an artist to do a mural for the NHS from an artist  Artmongers who painted a mural on a footbridge in Brockley.

Lionel has painted murals across South East London from Hither Green to Charlton bringing the total numbers of murals in the area to 30.

What did they say?

Lionel said:

“Network Rail saw a small version of this mural I had done just for myself and gave me the opportunity to do a much bigger version on a wall, to say thank you to all our incredible NHS staff. The location means I can do the work and can still distance myself so this is really the least I can do.

“I’m just painting at the end of the day and there’s thousands of doctors and nurses who are doing incredible work saving lives, and this is for them.”

Eddie Burton from Network Rail has worked with artists across the region to make murals on railway arches, bridges and in other locations.

He said:

“We’re really proud of our job carrying NHS workers to their jobs and our stations at Waterloo, Waterloo East and London Bridge are next to key hospitals in London.

“We hope seeing this gives our health workers a boost as we know what an unbelievable job they have been doing.”

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