I'm sorting through images for my new website (hopefully launching soon!) and found these photos of several children's room murals I've done over the years. 
These two were for my neices...
This jungle themed room is in a new baby's room in California.
This subtle white line painted floral was in Hong Kong, for two lovely girls who shared a room.
And this London-themed corridor and bedroom is in a suite of rooms in Mayfair...
I love painting these murals, and always happy to take comissions!
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nursery mural
I recently painted a fun mural for a friend's nursery. I was asked for simple scenes with friendly animals, in muted colours, that would work for a girl or a boy. 
I started with sketches of various combinations of animals and foliage, and put them into photos of the room to decide the best scale to paint them.
I did one of the sketches in colour, to show how they would all look on the pale yellow walls...
... and then put together a colour pallette. I used the same colours in all three scenes, to hold the room together. Eventually I did add one additional colour as I was painting: a pale orange for the lion.
This is a photo of the elephant scene half-way painted. It shows the building up of the layers of flat smooth colour.
And here's a photo of all three finished painted scenes, after they were given a final protective coat of varnish. I love how they came out.
Can't wait for the baby to arrive now and see if they like their room!
Waitrose Christmas
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For this year's Waitrose Christmas magazine in the UK, I drew images that would be used as backdrops for the hampers special photoshoot.
I created the illustrations, but as I couldn't be on location, a specialist did the physical chalk drawings onto boards on my behalf. I think they turned out pretty well! 
Pick up a copy in any Waitrose to see them all!
Sparkhouse mural
I've just been to Sparkhouse, in South Orange, New Jersey, to add another little character to the growing collection on the walls of my friend's toy store. It's always nice to do a little favour...
I'm now trying to think of a name for the mini supercute robot...
bathroom mural
I've just completed a beautiful residential mural project for NBB Design (an interiors company): it's the fanciest guest bathroom you've ever seen, with hand-written & painted phrases from the client's friends covering the walls from floor to ceiling.
iriya plus cafe mural
While I was in Tokyo two weeks ago, I went to visit my friend Naomi who runs iriya plus cafe, in Iriya, near Ueno. It's in an old warehouse building that she renovated, keeping the gorgeous original wooden beams and shelves, and overall traditional Japanese style, but adding a modern feel.
She commissioned me to paint a mural on the main cafe wall, as a backdrop for the upcoming 'pancake party' event, with live music by the local band JOYZ (you can see them in the above photo).
I drew this initial rough design, but found out that they don't make pancakes in a frying pan! So I took the pancake out and added more text. I also changed the font I used for 'POP' into my more comfortable calligraphic stye. Here's how it looked when it was done.
A photographer called Takumi Yamamoto, a friend of JOYZ, documented the day: me doing the mural, and also JOYZ playing live while I was doing the painting. There was a typhoon that day, but we were all snug inside. 
This is everyone, including the cafe staff...
If you're in Tokyo on October 29, try to make it to the live event, I bet it'll be fantastic. For tickets and more details, go to the iriya cafe blog. Wish I could be there!
baby room mural
I've just painted a ocean-themed mural for my baby niece's bedroom. It's a little room, with pale yellow walls and a partially sloped white ceiling. I roughly divided the room into 3 horizontal bands, with the top area of the walls, near the ceiling, as the sky, the next level as the horizon of the sea, and the bottom level, near the floor, as the ocean floor. From my initial concept just to do the sky, with clouds, stars and the moon...
the room developed into a gentle sea paradise.
I drew the clouds, birds, and main boat in pencil first, for positioning, and tested out the colours.
I painted the clouds white on the yellow walls, and where the walls merged into the sloped ceiling, I changed the clouds to blue on white.
I put birds in the clouds,
and sea creatures in corners along the skirting board of the room...
And of course, the main feature: a sailboat, with an imaginary portrait of my niece, sailing in her dreams...
