At last week’s meeting, Wimberley City Council members voted to give $12,500 towards a new downtown mural by renowned artist, Pat Rawlings. The cafe’s owners, Jay and Jen Bachman, teamed up with Rawlings to create what they hope will be another stunning mural for a town already known for its affinity for the arts.
While it is still in the planning stage, the main focus of the 700-square foot mural will be the south-facing exterior wall of the cafe’s new expanded kitchen on Henson Road, directly behind the fence. The mural will progress around the corner and then continue onto the recessed wall behind the dumpsters.
Rawlings’ often very real style can be viewed at Crisis Bread Basket, where he completed a mural in 2017.
For more than 30 years, Rawlings’ paintings, digital images and designs have been reproduced in hundreds of magazines and books and on television programs and films in the U.S. and abroad.
Not only has he created numerous large-format murals for commercial and governmental clients, Rawlings has created technically accurate artwork for NASA, The Ballistic Missile Defense Organization, Lockheed, Time-Life Books, Scientific American Magazine and Smithsonian Magazine, to name just a few of his clients.
His work is in all of the NASA Centers and reflects more than a quarter century of space exploration plans.
