I’ve had the opportunity to create painted murals for private residences in the desert the last few years. Each tries to capture the landscapes surrounding the property so that the viewer has a sense of the intersection of the inside and outside space.
The interior designer Christopher Kennedy asked me to create a painted mural that would capture the exterior views seen through the sliding doors and clerestory windows in a newly built pool house. This artwork wraps around the walls and incorporates the colors and shape of the San Jacinto range of mountains and the ever changing skies.
This mural captures the Indian Canyon Golf Course that encircles this neighborhood, Painted on rough stucco it’s a combination of spray paint, enamel and acrylic paint applied by hand. The flowers and grass were especially vivid after a few months of unexpected rain storms.
My good friend and uber talented designer Staci Munic wanted an exterior mural to anchor the wall on a side of her home that would be a background of an outdoor kitchen. I took inspiration from the bougainvillea flowers, the distant mountain range, the trees at Smoketree that you can see over her fence and an enormous grapefruit tree in the neighbor’s yard.
A mural was just the right touch for a guest bedroom that didn’t have any special architectural features. The renovated home located in the mountain foothills is a popular Air BnB and the mural gives the home a distinctive environment
