The best starting point for inspiration is yourself :
your interests, holiday destinations, favourite birds etc..

Artists throughout the centuries have included personal elements in their paintings: Van Gogh's love of sunflowers inspired a series of paintings, and the painting known as Vincent's Chair includes his pipe, tobacco and hankerchief.

When designing a mural for clients it can be fun to include an element that links the scene to them - maybe a favourite bottle of wine.

This is the inspiration & design stage and I feel that this can be more of a challenge than the actual painting of the mural on the wall.

I always produce a scaled colour concept sketch for my clients so they can see what I have in mind (a picture paints a thousand words). It makes it easier for clients to have a positive input to the formation of the design concept. it is also easy to make alterations to the design at this stage.

When surveying the site for the proposed mural I take measurements of everything - heights of walls, skirting, location of power-points and light switches, furniture, windows etc.. all these things can have an impact on how the mural needs to be designed.

I have included a selection of concept designs that you can view, some of them have been transformed into murals that can be seen in the gallery pages (see if you can recognise them).

Select the link below to view the slideshow - use the slideshow controls to view all the work.



Concept Designs Slideshow