One man’s artistic wonderland, created secretly in rented apartment, given protected status

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A rental property secretly transformed by the eccentric artist who lived there for three decades has been officially protected by the British government, five years after his death.

Shortly after Ron Gittins died in September 2019 at age 79, his family visited the apartment where he had lived since the mid-1980s in Birkenhead, just outside of Liverpool in northwest England. What they found inside left them totally awestruck. Gittins had decorated almost every available surface in his home and painted numerous murals depicting historical scenes.

“He was a kind of performance artist and the flat he created was like his stage set and own private world. “He did have some mental health issues and went through spells of being really unstable. I think it was his artwork and creativity that kept him going.

 

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