This is a mural I did some time ago, called “Birds at Mowich Lake”. The birds are all from a list the clients had seen on their property. They do not have this view of Mount Rainier, but they wanted it for their bathroom. To see this and more custom bathroom tile murals, go to https://www.paullewingtile.com/bathrooms.
Not much tile work going on these days so I’ve been painting. Here’s my latest. It’s 12” x 24”.
I forgot to take a picture of the tile that went out of the studio today after sitting around for several months waiting for its new owners to come home from Arizona. So this is a picture of the drawing for that tile. The tile is 18” square and will be set like this, on the bias, over a stove. The madrone tree is on the bluff in front of their house in Port Townsend, WA.
This one just got installed. It was a challenging space to compose in, especially since the trees had to read as continuing above the cabinets, and the tile all the way around the window had to have bullnose edges. I had originally drawn this as a road going away on the backsplash, but the client suggested we make it a stream. Her idea was better.
This is another painting I just finished for the holiday sale. It’s 16” x 20”, for $700.
I’ve been painting lately to get ready for the holiday sale. This one is 10” x 12”, an image from our recent trip to the Columbia Gorge.
This one will go in a kitchen. It’s kind of hard to explain as it’s laid out in three pictures here, but the long narrow parts will wrap around the backsplash, and the rest of it will go above the cabinets around a window. The treetops will be to the left of the window, the other patch of treetop will go to the right of that under the window, and the robin will be above the window in a field of white tile. I originally drew this with a road in the picture, but the client suggested a rocky stream instead. She didn’t even require me to redraw it, just trusted me to make that switch. I love clients like that.
Here’s a new one. It’s a flowering cherry tree in a Japanese sume brush style. It’s done on 12” x 24” porcelain tiles for one wall of a shower. The yardstick indicates where the tile setter will trim the tiles to fit the space. I never trim the tiles ahead of time because whenever I have done that, they have never fit right.
This little piece will be going into the back wall of a very small shower. It’s only 29” wide. It’s not painted all the way out to the edges of the tile because it will be trimmed to fit in a niche of field tile.
This is a piece I did in 2013. I went and photographed it when it was installed, but they just sent me this picture again to tell me how much they like it. A nice New Year’s present. I love it when people like living with my work.
