Church mural, for the St Maria Church, Hakodate, Japan Church mural. The Assumption of the Virgin, after Nicholas Poussin for the St Maria Church, Hakodate, Japan OTT bathroom with underwater fantasy, Surrey. City of London, The Lord Mayors Parade, mural for Prudential Property Services in the City of London. London mural. Detail of the Lord Mayors Parade, mural for Prudential Property Services in the City of London. London mural, Leadenhall Market, mural for Prudential Property Services in the City of London. Trompe l’oeil coffered, gilded ceiling mural with Tiepolo sky Mural depicting music around the world with a sky ceiling, for the stage at the Great Gallery, RAC Club, Pall Mall, London. Cherub and gilded trompe l’oeil ceiling mural, mural after Hughes, “NIght Putting the Stars to Bed”. Surrey. Detail of the European music panel for the Great Gallery at the RAC Club, Pall Mall, London. Detail of the African music panel for the Great Gallery at the RAC Club, Pall Mall, London. Detail of the South American music panel for the Great Gallery at the RAC Club, Pall Mall, London. Mural depicting music around the world, bird of paradise panel, for the Great Gallery at the RAC Club, Pall Mall, London, detail. Mural depicting music around the world, bird of paradise panel, for the Great Gallery at the RAC Club, Pall Mall, London, detail. Mural depicting music around the world, bird of paradise panel, for the Great Gallery at the RAC Club, Pall Mall, London, detail. Detail of panel for the Great Gallery at the RAC Club Detail of panel for the Great Gallery at the RAC Club Mural depicting music around the world, bird of paradise panel, for the Great Gallery at the RAC Club, Pall Mall, London, detail. Panels depicting music around the world for the Great Gallery at RAC Club, Pall Mall, London. Panels depicting music around the world for the Great Gallery at RAC Club, Pall Mall, London. Mural for McDonald’s Restaurant, Coventry. Map ceiling, incorporating the Wonders of the Western World and the interests and passions of the client. Mural depicting music around the world for the Great Gallery at RAC Club, Pall Mall, London. Jaccuzzi mural with cherubs, New York City. Elysian mural on cupboards in a 16th century Essex farmhouse. Classical scene for a swimming pool mural, Midlands, UK. Trompe l’oeil corner of ceiling painting above a bed, New York City. Coffered ceiling with trompe l’oeil carved and gilded coffering and a Tiepolo sky with falling angels and cherubs, New York City. Trompe l’oeil sky ceiling with putti, above a bed, New York City. Elysian scene painted on cupboards in a 16th century farmhouse in Essex. Detail of panel for the Great Gallery at the RAC Club Detail of panel for the Great Gallery at the RAC Club Coffered trompe l’oeil ceiling with painted carved and gilded coffering and a Tiepolo sky with falling angels and cherubs, detail, New York City.

Murals reflecting European traditions.
There has been a long worldwide tradition of decorative painting of our dwellings, from caves to palaces featuring Classical murals and also humbler abodes.
Mural painters have been embellishing their own and others residences for many many centuries.
There is a new theory that the very early mural artists, who were decorating caves were female.
Therefore Kate is one of many carrying on a long tradition of decorative painting stretching back over many centuries, with her use of classical murals and trompe l’oeil combined.
History of Mural Painting – classical murals
Travelling through southern Europe, particularly Italian, Bavarian, Austrian and Silesian regions evidently many buildings have been decorated by mural artists inside and out.
More recently patterns on the outside of buildings have been used from the 13th Century onwards.
Mural painters using traditional types of imagery of repeatedly decorating walls with designs based on nature and the human form inside and outside even simple houses.
You will find decorative painters have been everywhere.
Giuseppe Castiglione – early perspective in China
There was a 17th Century mural artist called Giuseppe Castiglione went to China at as a Jesuit missionary, they had been requested by the Imperial Court to find European artists to paint murals.
Castiglione was known as Lang Shining in China, he and his compatriots astounded the Emperor by the understanding and application of perspective.
Particularly seen in his painting of wisteria on a ceiling where the trompe l’oeil flowers cascade away from you changing form as they go.
Commissioning A Mural
More recently murals are having a renaissance.
Whether in the form of vinyl sticker murals from the local DIY centre, wall paper murals or engaging a mural artist.
If you are commissioning a mural artist to paint a personal mural for you, it has a long tradition and murals continue to enhance the interiors of today.
As a mural artist, placed in the centre of of Eastern and Western mural painting traditions. Kate has developed mural painting techniques which incorporate trompe l’oeil, classical murals, decorative painting motifs and painting styles from other era’s and nations.
She successfully combines these techniques, (as with the classical mural with Tiepolo sky) to produce murals that are decorative, technically correct and broadly reflect techniques of past traditions of mural painters and artists.