Wrinkled old fisherman mural drawing crowds in Balik Pulau

Head-turner: Volchkova painting the mural of a fisherman mending nets on the sidewall of a prewar house in the centre of Balik Pulau town as a crowd gather to watch.

BALIK PULAU: The lithesome Russian street artist Julia Volchkova has been drawing scores of people to this rural side of Penang island with her latest mural of a wrinkled old fisherman mending nets.

She started painting on Monday and by yesterday, she had completed about half the mural.