Work · 01

Ocean
Blue

A wave built line by line up a stairwell, so that the walls read as one moving surface from the bottom step to the top.

Every line is laid by hand and blended back into the one below it. The hard part is the turn: the pattern has to carry across corners and around a flight of stairs without a visible break, so the whole drawing is set out before any paint goes on.

Close up it is clearly painted. From across the room it moves.

Medium: Acrylic, one blue
Surface: Plaster, painted
Scope: Stairwell, across two floors
Finish: Matt, sealed

The finished wall

The finished blue wave mural rising through a stairwell — The wave carries up the stairs in one run.

The blue wave meeting the ceiling above the stairs — Where it meets the ceiling.

The blue wave wrapping an interior corner — Across the corner, with no break in the pattern.

The finished wave beside built-in cabinetry — Against the cabinetry.

How it was made

Concept visualisation of the stairwell with the blue wave — ConceptConcept visualisation, before any paint.

Second concept view of the stairwell — ConceptA second view of the same proposal.

Concept visualisation showing the wave across wall panels — ConceptHow the wave was planned to cross the panels.

Painter working the blue lines into a corner — Setting out the first lines in the corner.

Painter on a ladder extending the wave upward — Working up the wall from the ladder.

Hand blending the wet blue lines with a spray bottle — Blending while the paint is still wet.

The wave half finished across the stairwell wall — Half way up.

Painter continuing the pattern at height — The last stretch at height.

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The finished wall

How it was made

Ocean
Blue