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around you, whether it is the people in the public domain, a permanent fixture,

the world, their culture or nature itself, it is monumental and impressive. Domed

it is emotional and personal. It is these Ceilings and Murals create a completely

emotions that one tries to express, an different challenge and a real physical

inside view of your thoughts, your feelings workout. Working on large canvases or

and your ideas. The power of creation. a large wall gives a much vaster expanse

The challenge is to influence your viewer, of space to expand a visual impact from

to enable others to experience the same many yards away, allowing viewing

emotions, the same high the artist from a distance and visualizing a

experiences through the energy expressed finished product. Every artist aspires to

at the moment of creation. High energy, painting majestic canvases and no better

imagination, freedom of expression is achieved than painting wall murals.

through experimentation and challenges Most of the walls I have painted range

to achieve a completely original thought; in size from 30 x 50 to 25x300 feet. The

to re-create original thought with a challenge is creating the composition

three dimensional form to enable the in the right proportions at such a large

viewer to experience the emotion and scale. This is approached with a vision

passion through the artists’ recreation, of the wall finished before you start. You

to capture that moment in time whereby need to see it in your mind’s eye just to

the artist and viewer are one. get the perspective, balance and correct

proportions. You must always take on

Why did you choose the murals as the main the opportunity of working without a

way of expressing your art? projector, in this manner the freedom

Murals give you Public Exposure, it is of the hand will often bring that third

another form of expression, larger, more dimension that you have always been

challenging. Exposing the public to a trying to achieve. It is only then when

large format gives the artist international you will actually envision the subject

exposure through one work of art. It is in matter on the wall. I always ask for

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