The Good of the Hive Initiative by art activist Matt Willey

Matt Willey is committed to personally paint 50,000 honeybees – the number necessary for a healthy, thriving hive – on murals around the world.

Through art and imagination, The Good of the Hive raises awareness about the current struggle and population decline of honeybees while celebrating their incredible behaviors.

How is it going for Matt and the 50,000 honeybees? Follow Matt Wiley’s journey on Instagram.

A note from the artist:

Creating The Good of the Hive has been the most challenging and rewarding experience of my life. I have endured 10-hour painting days in 100-degree heat, financial hardship, growing pains, creative angst, burnout, disappointment and overwhelm. But I have simultaneously experienced profound levels of beauty, spirituality, genuine human connection, laughter, purpose, and faith throughout. This is life. A bee does not set out to ‘undo’ harm when she forages. She sets out looking for the nectar… the good stuff. She sparks life along the way through pollination by following something inside her that fuels the search.

There are two things that a honey bee symbolizes that every human craves – a sense of purpose about our existence, and the hive, the connectedness to each other. I am no exception. Six years and over 8500 bees into this, I realize I have been painting bees in search of these things for myself.

Every wall I paint is a lesson and a reminder of this truth. Each bee is an echo or ripple effect of the experience I had with one tiny bee in 2008.

I do not know exactly where this is all going. This art project is a vehicle and container to explore. Art is not planned, it unfolds. But I have learned that I am not alone in this experience. Any feeling of separation is an illusion. Like a magic trick, the connectedness often hides in plain sight, but when I look closely enough, it is always there.

Thank you to every person that has supported me in this wild idea to paint bees around the world. It means more than you know. You are helping to shape this piece of art into its perfect form.

About The Good of the Hive Initiative:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xa-BCo1fnK8&t=2s

Art activism is about sparking curiosity in order to inspire people to want (and create) change

Matt Willey: To be curious… to look closer because you want to… because it makes you feel good, hopeful and alive. Art activism is about sparking curiosity in order to inspire people to want (and create) change. Simply informing people about what is wrong helps, but it does not move mountains.

To move a mountain, you must first and foremost REALLY want to move that mountain. Then, because it is likely going to take a while, you must embrace the process of becoming who you need to be in order to move it.

Beautiful light glistening on dripping honey comb at Honey and the Hive!

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Street Artist Curtis Hylton

By Curtis Hylton in Swindon, UK, for Swindon Paint Fest.

More by Curtis Hylton: Have you heard the story of the squirrel and Robin?

More: 16 Stunning Bird-Inspired Street Art Murals from Around the World

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Have you heard the story of the squirrel and Robin?

Street Artist Curtis Hylton

By Curtis Hylton at Kungsgatan 11 in Oskarshamn, Sweden for Oskarshamn Street Art.

More by Curtis Hylton: Floral Osprey – By Curtis Hylton in Nykvarn, Sweden

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Cat – Mural by Dan Leo at Waterford Walls in Waterford, Ireland

Graphic Muralist Dan Leo

By Dan Leo.

Dan Leo about himself:

Born in London in 84 I moved to Ireland at a young age. Always having had an interest in art, my enthusiasm grew from the consumption of 90s cartoons and having a keen interest in American sports logos and graphic design.

My style has evolved over the years as I believe it should. It’s important to keep moving forward and explore new approaches as well as improve on existing ones. Animals have always been something I have had respect for and as you can see feature almost exclusively in my work. Nature is a never ending source of inspiration.

Painting has given me the opportunity to travel and meet many like minds and I’m grateful to be able to do what I love.

Deer – Mural by Dan Leo Fallow in New Ross, IrelandHawk – Mural by Dan Leo Fallow in Portstewart, Northern IrelandBee – Mural by Dan LeoGuillemot – Mural by Dan Leo at Open House Festival in Bangor, Northern Ireland

Street Artist Louis Masai

By Louis Masai at Shoreditch Station in London, UK. Part of a Street Art Campaign to Save the Bees with Jim Vision.

Louis Masai is a London-based painter, sculptor and muralist. He make street art and installations as a way to highlight the 6th mass extinction, climate change and species equality. An artist determined to raise awareness of the plight of bees and their importance to our survival on Earth.

More by Louis Masai: This is a mural of a critically endangered Axolotl

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More: Climate Change Addressed Through Street Art (16 Powerful Images)

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The Painted Lady – By Jim Vision In Beeston, UK (4 photos)

Street Artist Jim Vision

By Jim Vision In Beeston, UK (2019).

Jim Vision: ‘The Painted Lady’ This mural celebrates the once in a decade phenomenon of painted lady butterflies arriving in the UK after a long journey and multiple generations from Africa.

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'The Painted Lady' This mural celebrates the once in a decade phenomenon of painted lady butterflies arriving in the UK after a long journey and multiple generations from Africa. Whilst painting...

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