The graffiti is located on the white washed side wall of a former flower shop on Princess Street in Newcastle-under-Lyme.
The graffiti by Jules Muck depicts the images of three pink roses, a swan with a crown, and three butterflies, in blue, orange and pink, linked together with daisy patterned fabric. The words 'Muck Rock' in a white bubble are situated between the roses and the swan.
"Jules Muck was born in Stoke-On-Trent, England, in 1978. She started writing graffiti as a preteen throughout England and Greece. Her work is tagged 'Muck Rock'." SOURCE: (
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The following article by Jenny Amphlett about Jules Muck appeared on StokeonTrentLive on 4th April 2020 and reads as follows;
Meet the Potteries-born internationally renowned graffiti artist"Her work can be seen on buildings around North Staffordshire but also graces the homes of stars around the world
Jules Muck was illegally spray painting on the roof of a building in The Bronx, New York when she had the big break that led to a career as an artist.
The 41-year-old now lives in Venice Beach, California and travels the globe creating murals for film sets, album covers and galleries.
She's painted murals in refugee camps, at Miami's juvenile detention centre and at Engelbert Humperdinck's Bel Air mansion.
Burslem-born Lemmy is a bit of an obsession. Jules has painted five memorial murals to him to date including one at The Rainbow Room in Manhattan and a 40-foot-long Lemmy tribute at Foo Fighter Dave Grohl's recording studio in LA.
As star-studded as that may sound, Jules is still firmly rooted in North Staffordshire. Most of her family still live in her native county and she travels back regularly to visit them and to add a few more pieces of her public art to the area's growing collection.
"I was back in Stoke-on-Trent in February, and I'm so glad I was because now I have no idea when we'll all be able to travel again," she says.
Our interview has to be conducted on speakerphone via Instagram as Jules is confined to her California home during the coronavirus lockdown.
She tells me she's releasing a free colouring book page on her website every day that the lockdown continues, and that clients have started sending her canvases and other items to paint while she's unable to travel out to them.
It's all very starry and a world away from being born in Stoke then raised in Madeley. Her mum now lives in Eccleshall, her dad lives in Stafford and she has relatives in Hanley, Trent Vale and Newcastle.
"I didn't go to art school because my family had moved to the US by that point and art school cost a lot of money. My parents didn't think it was worth the money and none of us thought I was good enough to make a living from it. "
Jules, who uses the name MuckRock for her street art, spent her time doing graffiti and illegal street murals in the late 1990s.
The tag name MuckRock comes from Jules's British grandmother, Hilda Lowe, who used to call her Mucky Pup.
"A woman called Lady Pink saw me and took me on as her apprentice. She saw me on a rooftop in the Bronx. I knew her work and I was intimidated by her, but she started me working for her. She taught me but I was paid too.
"She taught me street art techniques but also how to make the business side of art work for me too. She was very open about how much I should charge people.
"At the beginning she had me filling in her designs and then later she set me on my way. Lady Pink had me doing things I didn't think I could ever do.
"I remember thinking that if Lady Pink thinks I'm capable of doing something then I could do it.
"I never thought I would be a working artist, and my family certainly never thought I was good enough to be a working artist."
Jules says she's experienced poverty and even homelessness over the years, even at points in her career when she thought she had finally made it.
"I wouldn't recommend it to someone unless they're so driven by their art that they have no choice. It's been hard to get on my feet financially and to get any respect, apart from the last few years which have been pretty consistent.
"I had my work in The Bronx Museum of Art and thought I'd made it, but then I went on to experience homelessness after that.
"I've had a lot of false starts, but as of late it's been nice. I pretty much have consistent work now and have a lot of different commissions."
Whenever Jules travels home to visit her family she picks up commissions for street art in Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme including being commissioned by Stoke-on-Trent City Centre BID to add to the city centre's collection of colourful murals.
"It's always nice to be in my home town," says Jules. "It gives me great pleasure to know that people will walk or drive past and see my art rather than it being tucked away out of sight in someone's home.
"I grew up with my family not really understanding what I was doing. Now they get to see it and they get a little part of the joy.
"I chose the path of putting my art out there in public. A lot of people don't have the time to go and look for art and to go to galleries, but a lot of people walk around or travel in a car.
"People can take photos of public art or take selfies with it. They can even film music videos in front of it. I like that people feel that connection and can perhaps relate to it in a way that they may not be able to with some other types of art."
She adds: "My real passion is still for painting on things that I'm not supposed to paint on but the opportunities for that are decreasing and instead I'm being invited to paint on more and more things."
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