Alice Malia









East Cowes Conservation & Innovation Mural
Isle of Wight - 2024

This mural marks the reintroduction of White-Tailed Eagles to the Isle of Wight after 200 years, depicting them soaring over the Solent’s seagrass meadows, a vital habitat for their prey.
Spanning 65m of the Columbine Building (1935), the mural also celebrates East Cowes’ engineering legacy, featuring historic innovations built here—The Princess Flying Boat, Black Arrow Rocket, Hovercraft, and today’s cutting-edge hybrid passenger catamarans.

Funded by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.With thanks to IOW Council, Forestry England, East Cowes Heritage Centre, Wight Aviation museum, IW Creative Network, Red Funnel Ferries, East Cowes Town Council, THF scaffolding co, Dulux Trade Centre and Wight Shipyard.  
Film and photography by Trudie Wilson.






Love Letter to an Elm, on Post Office Lane - Newport IOW - 2023

An urban regeneration project with Newport Town Council.
This mural celebrates a conservation success and transforms a neglected alleyway in Newport, Isle of Wight,
Fifteen years ago, disease-resistant Elm trees were planted, enabling the return of the White-Letter Hairstreak butterfly, once near extinction due to Dutch Elm disease. Today, these trees continue to support its revival.
Project support by Arc Consulting.








Flock Together St Thomas Primary School, IOW - 2022


Featuring three Corvids from the school logo: a Chough, a Jay and a Magpie, along with oak branches and local wild plants like birdsfoot trefoil and greater plantain.


Students from each class learned about feathers, and drew or designed their own, looking at various feathers from different birds. I was given one design from each year group to paint onto the containers, the children loved walking by and seeing their designs come to life in large size!





The gradient effect they chose for its calming effect. The way the stripes move through order into chaos and back to order again represents the mind, what they might be experiencing, and something to be able to think through in quiet moments in this space.  

The stripe motif came through sessions with students experimenting with cutting paint rollers to create various line effects.  

Biosphere mural with Artswork and the Island Learning Centre, Newport IOW - 2023


Year 8 and 9 students at the centre were involved in the concept and creation of these mural artworks to create a multi-use space for them within the school.
The colours were inspired by photographs they took of the landscape, on the Isle of Wight, a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve.

 




Ink Dwell Studios Migrating Murals
San Franciso, California 2010-2020


Painting with Ink Dwell Studios on their Migrating Mural series.
Watch a short film about this amaing project here. 


Photography by Pavló Fedorov





Swifts on Newport High Street  - Isle of Wight - 2022


These concrete benches were designed with a colourful mural to brighten up the high street, sitting alongside shop signs, and to support swift conservation projects in the town.
Campaigners are working towards new homes to be built with Swift bricks, to support declining populatons. The swifts are shown flying, as they are almost always on the wing, migrating huge discances to our shores from as far as central Africa.

The dots, made with the fingerprints of volunteers represent the flying insects they consume on the wing. The artwork was carried out at night to comply with exising road closures, and was lit by headtorches and finished in only 9 hours!





The Garden Mural
Bernal Heights, San Francisco, California.

Representing the clients gardens she had loved and worked on over the years.




Wildflower ceiling and wall murals, Ovesholm Castle, Sweden.

With Rose Pomeroy, for Shaun Clarkson Interior Design







Wildflower meadow bathroom mural, private residence, Manchester,UK. Designed and painted by Alice.