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Behind the scenes with the creatives working on globes today.

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The many pigments that go into painting a globe

Photo: Bellerby & Co Globemakers (credit: Paul Marc Mitchell)

  • Inside the studios of Bellerby & Co Globemakers, painters bring miniature worlds to life
  • Peter Bellerby, who set up the company after learning the art from scratch
  • The many pigments that go into painting a globe
  • A painter adds land shading to the continents
  • Painting in the map can take anywhere up to 4 weeks to complete
  • The strips of the map (called gores) are stretched and glued onto the sphere
  • Worlds come in all sizes, from the 22cm desk globe to the 127cm Churchill globe
  • Artist Jeff Murray with his bespoke globe, featuring illustrations from his travels
  • Globe conservator Sylvia Sumira in her workshop
  • Artist Luke Jerram with his replica earth artwork, Gaia
  • The public gaze at Luke Jerram's earth artwork Gaia, at the Wills Memorial Building in Bristol
  • A mini Gaia intrigues the crowds at Bristol's Extinction Rebellion uprising in July 2019

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