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Belfast artist Hannah Constance details the inspiration behind a new community mural she is painting in the King's Crescent area of Newtownabbey.

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00:00Hiya, my name is Hannah Constance, I go by the street art name HMC, and today we're in White Alley getting a mural.

00:09What do you hope to get out of the mural? What's the inspiration and the meaning behind it all?

00:15Well a lot of inspiration is really just to create a sense of community.

00:20We have a lot of kids coming past wanting to get involved, which is pretty fun,

00:25and even the adults, everybody seems to give a lot of positives about it.

00:36And have you worked on any sort of big projects like this in the past in Newton Abbey?

00:41Not in Newton Abbey, I've worked on projects in Belfast, especially around Belfast city centre,

00:46with the North Street Art Festival and various artists that way.

00:51So this will be my first mural in Newton Abbey.

00:56What's the mural, once it's finished over the weekend here, what's it all going to show?

01:01So the finished piece is going to be It's a Little Rain, which is the smallest part of Ireland,

01:07in a secret garden almost.

01:11The inspiration came from the meadows close by, so that's where we've taken a bunch of wildflowers

01:17and berries and flowers that grow out there.