Between February and April this year I undertook one of my biggest challenges to date – my very first mural commission.

The brief was to adapt Marc Chagall’s mural for the Paris Opera House for the ceiling of a family living room. Chagall’s mural is a wonderful celebration of Paris, Opera and some of the musical greats. It is an absolute feast of colour and movement and working from it taught me a huge amount about the poetry of painting and composition. The commission saw the transformation and division of Chagall’s original circular scheme into two rectangular panels, each measuring 3m x 1.5 m, installed on the ceiling next to each other, either side of a large beam which divided the room. There was also one further separate Chagall inspired panel (measuring 2m x 1.5m)  bringing together his painting called The Equestrian with a rather cheeky poem by E.E. Cummings called ‘May I Feel.’

To see more images of the mural in situ click here. For a stage by stage development of the mural from blank white panels to installation see my facebook page.

This featured picture shows me in the thick of things, painting away in a self storage lock up in wandsworth – the only place I could find that would accommodate all three panels. Without any windows and tucked away in amongst other similar lock up storage units it affectionately become known as ‘the cave.’