Tasha’s bringing more colour to city once again
AGLOUCESTER square will be given a bold, colourful makeover as Rainbow Street landlady Tasha Frootko reveals her latest plans to transform more city homes.
This month she aims to paint 25 house fronts in a city-centre square a series of vivid shades, as well as creating two giant murals.
Up for her biggest transformation to date are homes in St Kilda Square and Station Road, as well as a revamp of original Rainbow Street Nettleton Road, in a project she has dubbed “the Rainbow Square”.
Property developer Tasha made headlines after painting houses in three of Gloucester’s streets – Nettleton Road, St Mark Street and Sebert Street – stunning hues of pink, yellow, green and blue over the past four years.
Visitors came to see the revamped streets in a once rundown area of the city, which Tasha said had not only brought a sense of civic pride to the area but helped raise the value of the properties.
This time, Tasha has also enlisted the talents of artists Zoe Power and Eloisa Henderson-Figueroa to create two giant murals linking the rows of the rainbow terraced houses that have become the signature of Tasha’s work.
She also plans to “re-green” the front gardens of many of the properties to add to the regeneration project, mostly self-funded by Tasha with donations from property owners and landlords.
“I have been longing to return to the city-centre street that started my creative journey in 2018,” said Tasha. “After the success of the first street, it gave me the confidence to transform other streets in the city. Since then, there has been no stopping me.
“I feel like Gloucester is in desperate need of colour, vibrancy and greenery in its street scene. We have very little street art in the city and my aim is to create huge outdoor galleries of colour and creativity.
“I actively seek out rundown and neglected areas and turn them into huge patchworks of enchanting colours for everyone to enjoy and a much-needed cultural boost for the city.
“It is no wonder that places like Bristol, Brighton and Manchester are some of the most popular places to live in the UK. Every inch of these cities is being utilised as a canvas. I want to bring much more creativity to Gloucester and people seem to love what I do.”
Painters are already on site and have begun the transformation that Tasha hopes will be completed in four weeks, and she encourages people to go along to watch the work in progress.
One resident looking forward to the end result is 77-year-old David Hofton, who has lived in St Kilda Parade for 30 years.
He said: “I watched the first transformation of Nettleton Road and have been waiting four years for our street to be painted, so I’m really looking forward to it.”
David’s house will be painted a vibrant lime green, in a street that will also include orange, bright pink, red, teal and maroon.