Wall Art / Studio Motley
A wall art experiment on a rustic, unfinished wall within a residential space.
Studio Motley is a niche architecture and urban planning firm located in Bangalore run by Kajal Gupta and Anand Kurudi.
This wall art was commissioned for their nursery room / study as an experiment. The wall was hand cemented and left
unfinished without any base work to give it a rustic look. The brief for this space was open ended. So I designed
numerous elements keeping in mind that they needed to be small and intricate with breathing space.
Since the room had a view of the garden I wanted to bring in details like plants or birds onto the wall.
I decided to carry the monochrome feeling of the space into my artwork.
Through this mural I’ve attempted to do two things: Break a stereotype of always having a colourful nursery
and create a softness on a hard surface like cement through intricate drawings of the birds of paradise and liquid
lines of flight. No solid colours were used, allowing the grays of the cement peek through the artwork.
Work in Progress - Flight of the Birds of Paradise.
Details of the birds. They were painted with primer and white paint with a lot of realistic shading.
Completed Bird of Paradise, in black and white.
Completed Mural.
