London National Park City is a movement to improve life for everyone in London, working with citizens, visitors and partners to help everybody enjoy and appreciate London’s great outdoors. The
movement aims to make the city greener, healthier and wilder.
In March 2022, in return for Quintain’s sponsorship of London National Park City, artist Mark Anthony (ATM) was commissioned to create a mural celebrating a once endangered but now thriving bird of prey, a red kite. The birds soar across a wall at the edge of the Wembley Park estate, visible from the Chiltern railway line, to be enjoyed by passengers as they pull into Wembley Stadium Station.
To show further support for the charity, Quintain arranged and covered the costs for the necessary scaffolding and site preparation works, and
reimbursed London National Park City for the artist fees.
Julian Tollast, Head of Masterplanning and Design at Quintain, leads our involvement with the scheme, of which he has been a Trustee for over six year:
“London National Park City aims to connect people to their landscape, and that’s exactly what we want to achieve at Wembley Park.”
"Painted to celebrate London becoming the first National Park City and the wonderful success story of the reintroduction of the once critically endangered red kite. Hopefully stories like this can be repeated with other species, to bring them back to their former abundance. The red kite population is booming and expanding from their original stronghold in the Chiltern Hills. Hopefully they will again become as common as they once were London and other cities.I tried to capture the way they move through the air; they have such control and use their beautiful tail to great effect as they balance and turn. They almost float and waft around and are then capable of twisting and turning and swooping at great speed.”— Mark Anthony, ATM Street Art
