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# Bright-Green Banksy Mural Pops Up On Saint Patrick's Day
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/bright-green-banksy-mural-pops-up-on-saint-patricks-day/
- Published: 2024-03-18T15:36:00.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T15:02:29.000Z
- Description: Locals believe the work, which aligns with the trimmed limbs of a hedged tree, underscores the current climate crisis.
- Author: Rhea Nayyar
- Tags: News, Banksy, Featured, London, mural, Street Art, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:36 (2023, 2024, part 2)

A new Banksy mural emerged in London's Finsbury Park neighborhood over the weekend, to the delight of residents on Hornsey Road. On the side of a currently empty apartment building, the bright-green work aligns with the trimmed limbs of a hedged tree to emulate a weeping willow while a signature stenciled figure equipped with a pressure hose gazes up at the synthetic foliage, drenched in the drips of green paint.

Londoners and outsiders alike speculated that it was a Banksy piece after it popped up on Saint Patrick's Day, and they were proven right when the artist claimed it in a caption-less [post on Instagram](https://www.instagram.com/p/C4p0mn7su0a/?igsh=MXZhM3pwOTFpa2xjcw%3D%3D&img%5Findex=2&ref=hyperallergic.com) today, March 18\. Several members of the neighborhood told the [*Guardian*](https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/mar/18/north-london-tree-mural-prompts-banksy-speculation?ref=hyperallergic.com) that they believed the mural underscored the current climate crisis. Lidia Guerra, who lives on Hornsey Road, perceived the piece as a message about "the struggle of nature."

Prior to the Saint Patrick's Day addition, Banksy's most recent public work — an anti-war piece added to a London stop sign in December 2023 — was [stolen within hours of the artist's Instagram authentication](https://hyperallergic.com/new-banksy-anti-war-piece-stolen/). Less than a month before the stop sign had been stolen, a [2017 Banksy mural addressing Brexit was demolished](http://in Dover, England,) in Dover, England, as it was on the side of a condemned building.

Commenters on Banksy's latest Instagram post noted that at least thieves won't be able to make off with the work.

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2024/03/banksy-patty.jpg)

Equipped with a hose or pressure washer, the stenciled figure drenched in green paint looks up at the synthetic foliage dripping down the wall. (© Patrick Nguyen)

![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2024/03/3_dsc09341_-patrick-nguyen-2024.jpg)

The bright green paint emulates the cascading leaves of a weeping willow behind a barren tree in London. (© Patrick Nguyen)