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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.

Dark grey hallway wall painted with oversized hibiscus, ginkgo and banana leaves drawn in white and gold outline, beside a panelled door

Line florals in an entrance hall

Entrance hall

A wall painted as an arch between plaster columns opening onto a beach, a sailing ship on the water and flowers along a balustrade

Trompe-l'œil arch over a bay

Reception room

Child's bedroom painted around two corners with a watercolour jungle of giraffe, zebra, lion cubs, a toucan and palm leaves

Jungle in a child's room

Child's bedroom

An elderly woman in a green coat and red headscarf holding a split pomegranate, painted the height of a windowless building on a deep red ground, seeds falling around her

Woman with a pomegranate

Windowless end wall

An elderly woman in a red apron bent over her cupped hands shelling walnuts, painted up a narrow gable end against open sky

Woman shelling walnuts

Gable end

Two aged faces in grey and white on a black wall, one in a patterned headscarf, the other with loose white hair, worked in photographic detail

Two elders

Street wall

A bearded man's face in grey monochrome spread across the whole front of an apartment block, the building's windows falling inside the beard and brow

A face across a facade

Apartment block

A laughing elderly man's face in grey and white filling a wall, deeply lined, the eyes almost closed

A singer, smiling

Street wall

A white-bearded man looking upward and holding a bunch of lilies, drawn in pale grey the full height of a gable wall

Old man with lilies

Gable wall

A woman's face in warm ochre beside folded blue drapery and lettering, sprayed along a long street wall, a painter at work at its foot for scale

Blue portrait

Street wall

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

Flowering shrubs, slender trees and small birds spread across a rose-pink ground in one continuous horizontal band

Decor Chinois

Zuber et Cie, Rixheim

A mountain valley of pines and bare rock with a timber chalet below, printed across several joined wallpaper panels

Les Zones

Scenic wallpaper, 1909

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

A tropical shore of palms and broad-leaved trees with gathered figures along the foreground and pale hills behind

Les Sauvages de la Mer Pacifique

Joseph Dufour et Cie, 1804

A very wide painted garden of dark trees against blue, running the full length of a wall above a low painted fence

Painted garden, the long wall

Villa of Livia, Prima Porta, 30-20 BC

Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome

Fruit trees and small birds set against a blue-green sky above a low trellis fence, the whole wall painted as a garden

Painted garden, trees and birds

Villa of Livia, Prima Porta, 30-20 BC

Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome

Two painted garden walls meeting at a corner, so the trees and fence carry round the angle without a break

Painted garden, the corner

Villa of Livia, Prima Porta, 30-20 BC

Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome

The end wall of a painted garden room, trees and shrubs banked behind a low fence under a wide band of blue

Painted garden, the end wall

Villa of Livia, Prima Porta, 30-20 BC

Palazzo Massimo alle Terme, Rome

A reclining female figure in pale drapery, painted within a framed panel whose plaster is crossed by old cracks

Sleeping nymph

Pompeii, House of the Golden Bracelet, 30-35 AD

A grey and pink dove perched on a slender branch against dense green foliage, painted at close to life size

Dove among the leaves

Pompeii, House of the Golden Bracelet, 30-35 AD

A single sunflower head shown face on with broad leaves below, engraved and hand coloured on a pale ground

Large sunflower

From Besler's Hortus Eystettensis, 1613

A cactus in flower with a wide white bloom and long green stems, drawn across an open page of a bound volume

Night-flowering cereus

After Georg Dionysius Ehret

A white and orange cactus flower open against a night sky, with a church tower and moonlit water behind it

The night-blowing cereus

From Thornton's Temple of Flora, 1799

White and deep blue hyacinth spikes rising together against a pale sky with low cloud behind them

Hyacinths

From Thornton's Temple of Flora, 1799

A blue water lily and its flat round leaves on still water, with palms and a distant building beyond

The blue Egyptian water lily

From Thornton's Temple of Flora, 1799

A cluster of pink swept-back flowers on a tall stem, growing from dark rocks above a shore with a ship offshore

The American cowslip

From Thornton's Temple of Flora, 1799

A spike of white orchid flowers streaked with crimson, standing against a pale sky above low green hills

The China limodoron

From Thornton's Temple of Flora, 1799

Rosettes of dark auricula flowers with pale centres above thick grey-green leaves, set against distant hills

A group of auriculas

From Thornton's Temple of Flora, 1799

A passion flower with fringed crimson filaments and trailing tendrils, shown against a dim landscape

The winged passion flower

From Thornton's Temple of Flora, 1799

A tall reed with scarlet flowers and long strap leaves, rising against an open sky over water

Indian reed

From Thornton's Temple of Flora, 1799

Roses and scattered blossom worked over a strong yellow ground in a repeating brocade pattern

Floral brocade

Zuber et Cie, Rixheim

Pink roses each held in a small oval wreath, repeating in close rows across a deep green ground

Rose medallions

Zuber et Cie, Rixheim

A cream basket of flowers with symmetrical scrolling foliage either side, printed on a deep crimson ground

Basket and garland

Zuber et Cie, Rixheim

Pine trees in ink emerging from and dissolving into mist across six joined panels, with much of the paper left bare

Pine Trees, left screen

After Hasegawa Tohaku, about 1595

Tokyo National Museum

A second six-panel screen of ink pines, denser at the centre and fading to empty paper at both edges

Pine Trees, right screen

After Hasegawa Tohaku, about 1595

Tokyo National Museum

Flowering plants and small birds along a low bank, set against banded gold cloud and a soft violet sky

Flowers and birds of the four seasons

After Shibata Zeshin

A high-sided trading ship at anchor with crowds of figures on the shore, worked in colour and gold on a folding screen

Portuguese carrack at Nagasaki

After Kano Domi

Trailing green vines and red-flowered grasses sweeping across a tarnished silver ground on a two-panel screen

Grasses of summer and autumn

Japanese folding screen

Rockwork, flowering branches and a bright red lily painted on a pale pink ground above a green bank

Chinese export wallpaper

China, made for export, about 1850

Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

Autumn grasses and white and pink blossom scattered low across a gold ground on a folding screen

Flowers

After Watanabe Shiko

A gnarled maple leaning over a pale waterfall with small birds among its branches, on a six-panel gold screen

Maple trees, waterfall and birds

Attributed to Kano Ryokei

A flat ceiling painted as open architecture rising into sky, with columns and figures carrying the eye upward

The Triumph of Saint Ignatius

After Andrea Pozzo, 1685

Sant'Ignazio, Rome

A red wall painted with columns, a shrine and a projecting cornice so the flat plaster reads as built architecture

Painted bedroom wall

Villa of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale, 50-40 BC

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Two painted walls meeting at a corner, the false columns and cornices lining up so the room appears deeper than it is

Painted bedroom, the corner

Villa of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale, 50-40 BC

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A long band of painted architecture above a dado, running the width of the wall in red, ochre and black

Painted bedroom, the frieze

Villa of P. Fannius Synistor, Boscoreale, 50-40 BC

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

A small pale landscape of water, reeds and low buildings set like a picture into a deep red painted wall

Nile landscape on a red ground

Roman wall painting

Museo Archeologico Nazionale, Naples

Dense jungle foliage in layered greens with pale blossom and a small animal half hidden near the centre

The Equatorial Jungle

After Henri Rousseau, 1909

National Gallery of Art, Washington

A clearing with two deer at the water's edge, red and green foliage either side and pale sky above the trees

The Waterfall

After Henri Rousseau, 1910

Art Institute of Chicago

Sea anemones in pink, yellow and violet arranged in tiers, each ringed with tentacles, on a dark ground

Sea anemones

After Ernst Haeckel

Kunstformen der Natur, 1904

Branching coral forms drawn in fine white line on a black ground and set out in even rows across the plate

Gorgonians

After Ernst Haeckel

Kunstformen der Natur, 1904

A small streaked bird standing on a low mound of grass and flowers, drawn against an empty cream ground

American pipit

After John James Audubon

The Birds of America

Two long-tailed birds among broad green leaves and yellow fruit, one reaching upward along a branch

Yellow-billed cuckoo

After John James Audubon

The Birds of America

A woman reclining on a couch set impossibly within dense jungle, with lions, birds and a full moon behind

The Dream

After Henri Rousseau, 1910

Museum of Modern Art, New York

A lion bringing down an antelope in dark undergrowth, with other creatures watching from among the leaves

The Hungry Lion Throws Itself on the Antelope

After Henri Rousseau, 1905

Fondation Beyeler, Riehen

Clumps of blue irises on tall green blades scattered across six joined panels of plain gold, with no water, bank or horizon drawn at all

Irises, left screen

After Ogata Korin, about 1701

Nezu Museum, Tokyo

A second six-panel gold screen of blue irises, the groups set higher and closer together so the two screens read as one field

Irises, right screen

After Ogata Korin, about 1701

Nezu Museum, Tokyo

A dark stream patterned with silver eddies running down the centre of a gold ground, a white plum leaning in from the left and a red one from the right

Red and White Plum Blossoms

After Ogata Korin, about 1715

MOA Museum of Art, Atami

Two green and white demons on billows of dark cloud at opposite corners of a bare gold ground, one carrying a windbag over his shoulders and one a ring of drums

Wind God and Thunder God

After Tawaraya Sotatsu

Kennin-ji, Kyoto

A painted vault of ribs, medallions and grisaille figures opening at its centre into a round balustrade with sky, cherubs and onlookers leaning over the edge

The Camera degli Sposi ceiling

After Andrea Mantegna, 1465-74

Palazzo Ducale, Mantua

A ripe pineapple standing upright with its crown of grey-green leaves, butterflies and a beetle placed around it on bare paper

Pineapple in fruit

After Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, plate 2

A split pomegranate showing its seeds on a branch of red trumpet flowers, two large butterflies above with brilliant blue upper wings

Pomegranate and blue butterflies

After Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, plate 9

A cashew branch with broad leaves, a red and a yellow fruit hanging below and a spray of pink blossom above, moths and a cocoon among them

Cashew branch

After Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, plate 16

A stem of yellow hooded flowers and hanging seed pods with pale green moths above and below it, and striped caterpillars feeding on the leaves

Seed pods and moths

After Maria Sibylla Merian, 1705

Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium

A scarlet flamingo bent right down to the water so its head reaches the bottom edge, filling the sheet, with small pale flamingos wading far behind

American flamingo

After John James Audubon

The Birds of America

A pink spoonbill on a bank with its wings half open, dipping its flat grey bill into the shallows, a wide river and low cloud behind

Roseate spoonbill

After John James Audubon

The Birds of America

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

How it works

01
Measure
Send the wall's measurements and a photograph of it in the light the room actually has.
02
Draw
A scheme drawn to your wall, at your proportions. Nothing is painted until you have agreed the drawing.
03
Paint in place
Worked directly onto the plaster, in place.
04
Hand over
Photographed on completion.