I couldn’t be more thrilled and grateful to Trudy Rice for introducing me to the wonderful LuxeWalls.

My art is now available for you to purchase and enjoy on the wall of any work, living, event or entertainment space – how’s that for wild? I mean, imagine what you could do for events or functions?!

Each design is licensed and printed on demand; it’s a brilliant business venture founded by the fab Kerri-anne – what a great business operator.

This really hits my design spot; it’s satisfying to use my original etchings and paintings to create the patterns. I don’t fill my home with my work only – I don’t see the point in that. I love my industry, and so I buy other artists’ works, but I can’t help envisage a wall with one of these patterns and my original hanging over it – what a wonderful brain maze that would be.

Digressing…

I’ve been falling in love with patterns lately, incorporating Italian architectural finishes and characteristics into my work. I allow myself to explore creativity in the art studio, finding a therapeutic quality in painting repetitive details. Life feels a bit chaotic right now, with an overwhelming amount of information everywhere. It feels like nothing is focused on longevity, taking things slowly, or being present. My nervous system calms to the order of columns and rows.

So with this new place I’m in, studio-wise, this wallpaper opportunity, and curating exhibitions of Australian artists’ work for Queenscliff Gallery, I feel my life of art and design is quite full now.

The wallpaper designs are now available from LuxeWalls.

Paris etchings wallpaper by Soula Mantalvanos