Embellished Artwork: How To Blend Art With Interior Design

As a world renowned commercial and residential interior designer I have had the opportunity to design many luxury interiors. I have long been an admirer and proponent of painted surfaces and have often used artists and craftsmen to embellish limited surfaces of a home
Like most things, if overdone, they lose their impact. So when I have used them to make a statement, I surround them with more subtle surfaces. When I use them more prolifically, I make them more background, using less bold tone-on-tone glazes and finishes.
The menu of painted surfaces and techniques is vast, varying from simple glazing; to stippling, sponging and ragging; applying metallic leafing; and painting murals or designs on the wall or ceiling
Other techniques include venetian plaster which is a special plaster material incorporating finely ground marble to give a surface that is almost as smooth as glass, yet has the look of some dimension and the mark of the craftsman's trowel throughout
Here are a few examples of what I have recently done to demonstrate these techniques