Monday 4 July 2022 03:42 PM Just Stop Oil eco zealots glue themselves to Constable's The Hay Wain at the ... trends now
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Just Stop Oil activists today carried out a protest at the National Gallery by covering John Constable's The Hay Wain with their own version featuring double yellow lines, pollution and an old washing machine.
Two environmental demonstrators covered the famous painting in London with a mock 'undated' version including aircraft, before gluing their hands to the frame in a protest against UK oil and gas projects.
The group said their reimagined version of the 1821 painting, which depicts a rural scene on the River Stour in Suffolk, shows a 'nightmare scene that demonstrates how oil will destroy our countryside'.
Just Stop Oil said: 'The river has been replaced by a road, airplanes fill the sky, pollution belches from cities on the horizon, trees are scorched by wildfires, an old car is dumped in front of the Mill and the famous Hay Wain cart carries an old washing machine.'
Among the protesters today was Hannah Hunt, 23, a psychology student from Brighton, who said: 'I'm here because our government plans to licence 40 new UK oil and gas projects in the next few years.
'This makes them complicit in pushing the world towards an unlivable climate and in
