THE Hazelhurst Cafe walls at Gymea were stark white before a creative artist took to them with his paints and brushes.
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Now there are subtle "insects" appearing on some walls, while a giant colourful pair of bespectacled eyes highlight the food servery in the main restaurant area.
This is the transformation wrought by Mulga the Artist, also known as Joel Moore.
Cafe owner James Watson commissioned the work to brighten up the eating space, and perhaps make the restaurant more in keeping as part of the complex's regional gallery and arts centre.
The shire-based artist, 33, explained how he adopted his "painting" name.
"I was in year 5 at school and recited the Banjo Paterson poem, Mulga Bill's Bicycle, about a hapless chappie who buys and then crashes a bike," he said.
"People started calling me 'Mulga' at school, and the name stuck."
Mulga, who did art at school, had previously been a financial planner.
Before the restaurant commission he has painted an exterior garden wall and decorated Italian and Mexican restaurants in other suburbs.
