WORLD-CLASS CHALK ARTIST AT FLOWER TEMPLE FOR DAFFODIL DAY

Renowned 3D chalk artist Clark Smith collaborate with Flower Temple and turned the walls of Artemis Lane outside Flower Temple at QV, into a dazzling three-dimensional meadow of hope for cancer to mark Daffodil Day.

Smith, an award-winning artist dubbed the Laneway Michelangelo for his stunning chalk murals, began work on his YELLOW INSTALLATION piece outside the Flower Temple at QV on Tuesday, August 23 in the lead up to Daffodil Day.

Smith’s illusionary doors of hope installation amazed onlookers, with its wide doors that seem to open onto a three-dimensional vista of rolling hills and fields of cheery yellow daffodils surrounded by a tangle of vines, trees, plants and birds.

Members of the public were invited to watch Smith create his chalk art on Tuesday, August 23 and Wednesday, August 24, before YELLOW INSTALLATION was unveiled to the media with a morning tea on Thursday, August 25 – just in time to mark the 25th anniversary of Daffodil Day in Australia on Friday, August 26.

The installation, was an optical illusion and boggled both the eye and the mind like those seen in cities overseas. Flower Temple sold charity merchandise in support of Daffodil Day and also donated a gold coin to the Cancer Council for every cup of coffee purchased at its in-house café between August 22-26, 2011.