NKAR

Murals

Painted onto the wall
itself.

Commissioned rather than bought. Every scheme is drawn to your room and agreed before a brush touches the wall, then hand-painted in situ.

Known paintings, put on a wall at the size of your room.

A night sky of rolling blue and yellow whorls above a sleeping village, a dark cypress rising the full height of the canvas at the left

The Starry Night

After Vincent van Gogh, 1889

Museum of Modern Art, New York

A gold spiralling tree fills the panel, its coiling branches studded with eyes, triangles and enamel-like ornament above a band of flowers

The Tree of Life

After Gustav Klimt, 1910

MAK, Vienna

Ballet dancers in white tutus rest and stretch along a bare rehearsal-room wall in raking daylight

The Dance Lesson

After Edgar Degas, c.1879

National Gallery of Art, Washington

A reclining nude Adam reaches out to touch the finger of God, who is borne aloft in a red cloak among angels

The Creation of Adam

After Michelangelo, c.1511

Sistine Chapel, Vatican

A woodblock print of a great clawed wave curling over three low boats, with a small snow-capped Mount Fuji beyond

The Great Wave off Kanagawa

After Katsushika Hokusai, c.1831

Library of Congress

White almond blossom on dark twisting branches against a flat turquoise sky

Almond Blossom

After Vincent van Gogh, 1890

Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam

Two figures wrapped in a single gold patterned robe, the man bending to kiss the woman's cheek as she kneels on a flowered bank

The Kiss

After Gustav Klimt, 1908

Belvedere, Vienna

A ghost-white sailing warship is towed by a small black steam tug across a glassy harbour under a burning orange sunset

The Fighting Temeraire

After J. M. W. Turner, 1839

The National Gallery, London

Blue-violet irises crowd a bed of red earth, one white bloom standing apart at the left

Irises

After Vincent van Gogh, 1889

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

A pond surface in pale yellow, lilac and green, lily pads drifting across reflected cloud with no horizon and no shore

Water Lilies

After Claude Monet

A green arched Japanese footbridge crosses a lily-choked pond enclosed by dense willow

The Water-Lily Pond

After Claude Monet, 1899

The National Gallery, London

A girl in a blue and gold turban turns to look over her shoulder out of deep darkness, a single pearl at her ear

Girl with a Pearl Earring

After Johannes Vermeer, c.1665

Mauritshuis, The Hague

A vermilion Mount Fuji rises against deep blue sky with rows of white cloud along its base

Red Fuji

After Katsushika Hokusai, c.1831

Venus stands on a scallop shell blown to shore by winged winds while an attendant hurries to cover her with a flowered cloak

The Birth of Venus

After Sandro Botticelli, c.1485

Uffizi, Florence

Survivors cling to mast wreckage on a towering green wave as a fiery orange sunrise burns through storm cloud

The Ninth Wave

After Hovhannes Aivazovsky, 1850

State Russian Museum, St Petersburg

A low horizon over ranks of dark grey-blue swells building into a storm, one small sail far off

The Black Sea

After Hovhannes Aivazovsky, 1881

Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow

A woman in a white blouse and blue tie reclines on sunlit green grass reading a book, a folded white parasol beside her in an orchard

Woman Reading in the Garden

After Yeghishe Tadevosyan, 1903

National Gallery of Armenia

A woman in a chainmail hood and embroidered robe holds a banner and round shield beside a pale horse in ornate harness, against a carved stone wall

The Knight Woman

After Vardges Sureniants, 1909

National Gallery of Armenia

The Bosphorus at sunset, a domed mosque and minarets on the right bank and caiques drawn up along the shore

Constantinople at sunset

After Hovhannes Aivazovsky

A golden sun sinks behind headlands as a ship with amber sails rides a glittering bay beside a coastal town

Sunset at sea

After Hovhannes Aivazovsky, 1877

Sakıp Sabancı Museum, Istanbul

Noah leads a long procession of people and animals down a pale plain beneath the luminous snow-capped cone of Mount Ararat

Descent of Noah from Ararat

After Hovhannes Aivazovsky, 1889

National Gallery of Armenia

The domed Hripsime church inside its low walled enclosure on an empty ochre plain under a pale blue sky

Hripsime Church

After Vardges Sureniants, 1897

National Gallery of Armenia

A crowned queen in an ermine-lined robe stands in an arcaded hall as courtiers bow and armed guards flank a carved door

The Return of Queen Zabel

After Vardges Sureniants, 1909

National Gallery of Armenia

Full-length portrait of the Shah in a jewelled black hat and richly patterned brocade coat, standing beside a blue-and-brass cannon with mountains behind

Portrait of Naser al-Din Shah

After Hakob Hovnatanian

Vienna

Lord Byron steps onto a Venetian quay to be greeted by a line of black-robed Armenian Mekhitarist monks, gondolas and the lagoon behind

Byron visits the Mekhitarists

After Hovhannes Aivazovsky, 1899

National Gallery of Armenia

Night seascape with a tall ship at anchor, the moon breaking through cloud and laying a path of light across the water

Ship by moonlight

After Hovhannes Aivazovsky

The harbour after dark, a red sky behind the minarets and a fire burning on the quay

Constantinople by night

After Hovhannes Aivazovsky

A square-rigged ship heeling in heavy green seas under a bank of storm cloud, gulls low over the crests

Ship in a storm

After Hovhannes Aivazovsky

Ask for a subject that is not here — most things can be worked to a wall.

How it works

  1. 01

    Measure

    We come to the room, measure the wall, and photograph it in the light it actually lives in.

  2. 02

    Draw

    A scheme drawn to your wall, at your proportions. Nothing is painted until you have agreed the drawing.

  3. 03

    Paint in place

    Worked directly onto the plaster over several days, with the room protected and the mess ours to clear.

  4. 04

    Hand over

    Photographed on completion, with care notes for the finish and a written record of the pigments used.

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