I went to see a school recently to talk about having a mural painted. The head took me to the hall where he showed me a woodland mural that looked like it had been painted by young children, unsupervised. ‘This was painted by one of the Mums, quite a few years ago.’...
I have spent quite a lot of time recently, thinking about the future. Maybe because I have had a few life changing events happen, maybe because Spring is on the way or maybe because I went to see a very inspiring talk by a futurist, whose job it is to tell companies...
As an artist and Mum, I feel very strongly about the presence of art in schools; I also know the reaction I get when painting in schools from students, staff and parents alike. It is a very special experience and I have had children come up to me years later, still...
[left][/left] [right][/right] Can you believe it is November, how did that happen? Once again I find myself in the throws of the usual round of children’s room murals as Christmas gifts. It is where Charlotte Designs started and I still love working with...
Just a couple of weeks ago, I was sitting in Marrakesh by the pool, watching one of the guys in the animation team round up volunteers for water polo. I had been watching him do this every day for almost two weeks and done yoga with him every morning and he is...
As far back as late 19th Century Paris, when Toulouse-Lautrec was commissioned by the Moulin Rouge to design a series of posters promoting the Bohemian nightspot, art has been used to sell product. “Business Art is a much better thing to be making than Art Art”...
Originally posted on December 8, 2015 by Sarah Hodgkins In this world of technology, mass produced plastic, throw away ‘stuff’, why would we want to spend our hard earned cash on something unique for our children? Something that a real person has thought about and...
It is the question I am most commonly asked when giving interior decoration advice. You might think that painting kids bedrooms was pretty straight forward, especially when it comes to colour. Pink for girls, blue for boys, right? But the psychology of colour and how...
Murals are a fantastic decorating solution for anywhere in the home, but nowhere are they more practical than in a bathroom. Over the years, the bathroom has turned into very functional space, often tiled from floor to ceiling, meaning the bathroom wall mural has all...
The UK leads the world in many creative arenas, think fashion or furniture design, but in other areas we are most certainly deserving of a ‘could do better’. One such area is murals, an art form as old as man itself, but one where the UK is lagging miserably behind...
Murals are all over the news at the moment. If we haven’t got Prince George enthralled by them at his new nursery, then we have the beautiful mural of David Bowie being used as a shrine in his home town of Brixton. So is it hardly surprising that murals are gaining in...
Welcome to Instamural, the quickest, easiest way to get a hand painted design on your wall. How it all started… Hi, I am Sarah and I have spent the last 10 years hand painting murals directly onto the wall of homes, schools and businesses up and down the country....
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