Work · 03

Heaven

Cloud forms carried around every corner, so the whole room reads as one continuous sky.

The pigment is blended wet, straight onto the wall. It is the only way to get cloud edges that dissolve instead of stopping, and it means working fast, in sections, before anything dries.

Warm cream low down, cooling as it rises, so the ceiling feels further away than it is. There is no hard line anywhere in the room.

Medium: Soft pigment, blended wet
Surface: Plaster, painted
Scope: A room, wall to wall
Finish: Matt

The finished wall

The finished cloud room, walls meeting at the corner — Wall to wall, with no break at the corners.

Clouds filling the wall above the floor — Warm at the bottom, cooling as it rises.

The cloud mural turning a corner of the room — Nothing in the room has a hard edge.

How it was made

A painted sample board leaning against the wall — ConceptA sample board, painted first and approved on site.

Painter working under a work light in the half-painted room — Working under a lamp, section by section.

The room part painted, with paint cans on the floor — Part way through.

Cloud forms built up across the wall — Building the forms up in layers.

The clouds nearly complete across two walls — Nearly there.

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