Okay, let’s get technical. What is the difference between a muralpaper, wallpaper, and a mural painted directly on the wall?
Susan Harter: Murals painted on-site can be a great option if you have a trusted local muralist whose style you adore. The disadvantage is that it might be “unique” in ways you didn’t anticipate. That’s one reason we developed the muralpapers.
“With muralpapers, the estimates and samples are reliable, there are artwork approvals, you know just what you are going to get. Designers really appreciate that.”
Another great advantage of muralpapers is that they take 2-3 days to install, rather than 2-3 months to paint. Anyone who has ever lived in a home with scaffolding filling their foyer can appreciate that point! Muralpapers like ours combine the best of both worlds, the look and feel of work done by an artist, but with the ease of wallpaper.
Muralpapers like ours, that use modern digital techniques, are freed from many limitations that traditional chinoiserie or block printed wallpapers have when it comes to scale and size. We can scale the artwork itself to the space, making grand, tall trees in a sweeping foyer, or small delicate ones about a chair-rail.
“Once designed, the artwork is printed onto rolls of canvas, numbered for ease of installation. It has the look of a painted mural, with the ease of wallpaper.”
How gorgeous does Susan Harter’s work look in my hallway?
Now for my favorite part of the Q&A–talking about the insanely gorgeous installation that is now in my hallway! I’m obsessed, and I’d love to hear about the project from your side.
Susan Harter: First of all, Kathy, you are so inspiring as a creative person and as an entrepreneur! And so glamorous–a quality of which I’m always in awe. So I was excited to see your name come into my inbox one morning, and then the photos of that gorgeous curved hallway, and the panels.
“This project wasn’t quite like anything we’ve done before so I pinned it up on our celebration board, hoping it might happen. When it did, there may have been a small victory lap around the studio! It’s always great to see the murals being used in a new way.”
I thought your use of them on that curved surface was very clever. The curve must make some great vistas as you walk up and down the hall, and different parts of the artwork are revealed. It makes the architectural panels, already lovely, seem like windows looking onto a landscape, creating a sense of spaciousness.
That’s the kind of moment great designers spot, and the rest of us miss! Now other clients with curved walls are sending us room shots, bright-eyed and hopeful with the possibilities your project showed them.
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As an artist and entrepreneur, what inspires you most?
Susan Harter: Murals are an idealized landscape, a sort of painted Eden. I feel happy, out in nature, walking around, surrounded by all that ever-changing beauty. I feel happy in my studio- sunlight pouring in the window, a couple of dogs snoring at my feet, and a monk-like stillness all around me. By some odd alchemy that I’ve never understood but am grateful for, that happiness shows up in the work.
“I wish often, especially in these years of the pandemic, that the world was a kinder, happier, more peaceful place. In my paintings, it is.”
The best compliment I ever got was from a young boy. He and a group of kids came tearing into the room where we were installing a mural, and threw themselves down on the floor, engrossed in some childhood game. After about 20 minutes, this kid looked up and said: “Oh, we aren’t outside!” The other kids laughed: “Of course not dummy, we’re in the living room.”
Then they all got up and started looking at the mural. And the first kid says: “Well, they don’t exactly look like trees, but they feel like trees.” So that’s our core mission. I want it to feel like trees. I want it to make people happy. I want to treat everyone, clients and employees alike, as ethically and kindly as possible. I want the whole thing to be a mini-Eden. We don’t always get there, of course, but that’s the plan.
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