Digital subscriptions provided by the City of Gulfport THE GABBER.COM No. 2761
May 19, 2022 - May 25, 2022
Mural on the Move Drive by Janet Brown’s home in South Pasadena Mobile Home Park and it’s clear the car doors – painted with a Gulfport beach scene – have a story. Brown, a go-getting art lover new to the Gulfport area, is always ready to tell it. In April, Brown’s 1999 Nissan sported the mural, but the car was totaled just a few weeks after St. Petersburg artist Tara Homan completed the final brushstroke. Brown dedicated the mural not just to her newfound beach home, but to her deceased sister, Jenniveve Angus, who passed away from cancer in 2020. When the mural remained unscathed after the collision, she didn’t want to let it go to the junkyard. “The mural is larger than life; there’s a lot more to it than meets the eye,” Homan said. Homan is a boat captain and full-time artist, but before Brown called her, she’d never painted a car mural. To Brown’s surprise, Homan showed up to her home asking to see the mechanical canvas before Brown hired her. The two women clicked, and the idea for a
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Janet Brown commissioned a mural for her 1999 Nissan this April, months later, the car was totaled in a collision.
Gulfport-inspired moving art piece was born. “Her enthusiasm, her inspiration – I knew she was the one,” Brown said. Brown knew she wanted a Gulfport-and-beaches-inspired piece of art on her Nissan, but she left many of the details to the artist. A St. Pete resident, Homan added the Don
Cesar in the distance, a flamingo (named Lucy after Lucy the flamingo at Sunken Gardens) and a few special touches, including a tennis net with Brown’s sister’s name painted in lightly. Brown teaches tennis at the St Petersburg Tennis Center, and considers the sport a huge part of
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