Just when I think we are accomplishing some fairly artistic highlights on an intricately carved applique, I run across articles like the one below from
New York Magazine. If you think faux wall painting was a thing of the past, think again. Artisans like Matt Austin are keeping the craft alive and well. Read on...
Best Decorative Painter
|
Decorative painting by Matt Austin.
(Photo: Courtesy of the vendor)
|
- Matt Austin
-
A self-taught artisan who works well under
deadline, Matt Austin often gets summoned for what he terms “paint
emergencies”—when someone has mistaken a faux-marble paint job for real
stone and polished through a patch of it, or when a store needs a wall
painted to look just like plywood and finished within three days. (This
happened at the Marc Jacobs outpost on Bleecker Street.) Austin got his
start doing decorative work for friends and relatives, and these days he
has clients who fly him to Europe to paint their homes, but he’s not
averse to doing a small $500 panel in between those $50,000
gold-leaf-mural jobs. He can do stripes (he once painted an elaborately
patterned portico that required a quarter-mile of painter’s tape) and
detailed pastoral scenes, and has turned children’s rooms into playful
landscapes filled with hot-air balloons and palm trees. What’s he
working on now? Oh, just a mural of hyperrealistic birds and butterflies
on chinoiserie branches painted in doped copper—which makes the
branches turn luminescent blue in the dark.
http://nymag.com/bestofny/services/2013/decorative-painter/
No comments:
Post a Comment