Studio Hart
Original Artwork by Brenda Hart
Taylor Ceiling Mural
Boulder, Colorado
“ Can you paint a ceiling?” the client asks. “How big?”
13× 24 feet. Why not I thought to myself. It’s just a wall turned upside down, right? This was my first and only ceiling so far. Challenging, but I’m up for it. The Taylor’s wanted a mural painted on the ceiling of Carlyn’s home office. She wanted her school colors ( burgundy and gold), Marc wanted a trellis that incorporated the lighting. So I set off designing a mural that worked with their criteria. The really fun part came at the end when I was able to
paint all the birds, butterflies and stained glass. Carlyn suggested magpies and I was dying to paint magpies, so how lucky was that. Over the stovepipe I painted one of the magpies that had presumably snatched one of her favorite necklaces. I spent three months painting and one month of design and prep work on this mural. My favorite thing about this mural is that five in the afternoon, the sky in the mural matches the sky outside
and the painted clouds have that pinkish orange glow of dusk.
I would also like to add a huge thank you to my mural painting teacher Janet Shearer of Cornwall, England.
~ Brenda Hart
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CLIENT COMMENT
“When I saw Brenda’s work, I knew immediately that she was the right one to paint our mural. The realism in her paintings is incredible, and that’s what we wanted for Carlyn’s office. We didn’t want to control her or the design. It was her style and talent that we wanted for our space, so we let her ‘go’ with it so she could let her talent come through. We were impressed with her work ethics and extremely happy with our ceiling mural. We are so glad that she was part of our ‘dream team’.”
~Marc Taylor