Create Your First Project

Start adding your projects to your portfolio. Click on "Manage Projects" to get started

A Medici Villa

My brief was to restore an important villa to its former splendour after its 1970's renovation when all period details had been removed. So it meant painter cornices and columns that no longer existed.

Hand painted trompe l'oeil columns

A vista including a local landmark - the castle of Ripafratta

Hand painted trompe l'oeil

Rocca di Ripafratta

DETAIL: The castle of Ripafratta, an important landmark in the area outside of Lucca, is included in the landscapes.
Everything is designed to create the illusion of light & space.

Rocca di Ripafratta

Detail of storm clouds

Hand painted trompe l'oeil

Trompe l'oeil pediment over the doorway and a pair of painted pilasters add grandeur to a simple doorway.

Hand painted trompe l'oeil

Scale drawing for the vaulted hallway.

The Vaulted Hallway

My trompe l'oeil stonework transformed the dark space into a luminescent hallway.

The Vaulted Hallway

My trompe l'oeil stonework transformed the dark space into a luminescent hallway.

DETAIL: Trompe l'oeil carved stonework features two sphinx supporting a lyre.

The Vaulted Hallway

DETAIL: Hand painted pilasters aim to charm the eye with their entirely faux details.

The Vaulted Hallway

DETAIL: My trompe l'oeil architectural mouldings, add grandeur to the space.

Hand painted trompe l'oeil

DETAIL: Trompe l'oeil architecture surround the door.

Hand painted trompe l'oeil

Trompe l'oeil bass relief urn above the doorway.

La scala delle ninfe

The villa's staircase

La scala delle ninfe

Detail.

.pro-gallery-wix-wrapper {display: block !important;} .pro-gallery-wix-wrapper .gallery-item-container {opacity: 1 !important; display: block !important;}