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Alba
Mural artist in Alba
In Alba, Giulia Dal Bon paints murals with a brush, in houses, flats, hotels, restaurants and shops. Trained at the Brera Academy, she paints on site, from 150 € per square metre. Free quote within 48 hours, two sketches included: you approve the design before Giulia paints.
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The price of a mural in Alba
| Simple motif or line drawingFine lines for flowers, patterns, silhouettes or figures… | 150 €/sqm |
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| Fully painted subjectColours and shadows for landscapes, portraits or scenes… | 250 €/sqm |
| Trompe-l’oeil or ceilingThe wall opens onto a false window, a sky on the ceiling or an entire landscape… | 350 €/sqm |
| Exterior facade: if needed, scaffolding is added to the quote. | |
Free quote within 48h
Surface and technique set the price; interior or exterior, the condition of the wall, the height, any scaffolding and the timing are then written into the quote.
Where to start?
When you contact me about a mural in Alba, here is what happens next.
A photo of the wall with the sketch
Send me a photo of the wall and I draw a sketch straight onto your photo. You tell me what you think. The first two sketches are free.
The quote
Once the sketch is approved, I send you the quote and we set the date together.
I paint the wall
I come and paint at your place in Alba, by brush, and the place stays open while I work.
Murals in Alba
Alba lives on wine and truffles. Cellars, producer shops, restaurants and guesthouses receive international visitors during auction season and look for a visual identity that sets them apart. The Langhe farmhouses around are often converted into accommodation. Cold, damp Piedmont winters: outdoors, Giulia paints on a dry wall, in mild weather, on a frost-resistant base. A photo of the wall and its measurements are all it takes to begin: Giulia draws the sketch on it, then comes to paint on site.
What Giulia brings to Alba. Giulia is a painter, trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. She exhibits her paintings in art galleries and also paints on walls. She paints with a brush, in odourless acrylic indoors and quartz paint outdoors, and Corriere della Sera, Domus and Sky Arte have covered her work. The wall is her favourite canvas because it truly becomes part of a place, a unique work made to tell your story.
Alba through conviviality and earth tones
Here, a mural can support places where people stay, eat, talk, and let time widen.
Houses and villas
Bedrooms, living rooms, stairwells, entrances, hallways and ceilings. Example: a farmhouse kitchen wall of 8 sqm in a simple motif, around 1 200 €.
Hotels, restaurants and shops
Restaurant rooms, hotel bedroom walls, shop windows, shutters, lobbies and offices. A hand-painted mural belongs to this place alone, and it is what people remember about it. Example: a tasting room of 15 sqm fully painted, around 3 750 €.
Facades and exterior walls
Giulia paints outdoors all year round, on a fully dry wall and in mild weather, so the paint holds through frost. For a facade visible from the street, the owner’s or the building association’s approval is usually enough, plus a notice to the town hall in a protected zone. From 150 € per sqm, plus scaffolding if needed.
What Giulia brings to Alba
On 15 August 1928, at the Savona restaurant, the hotelier Giacomo Morra asked his guests whether anyone had ever thought of holding a truffle market. The show took place that autumn under the name, used for the first time, of Alba truffle; in 1929 the Fiera was born, a month after the grape-harvest fair so the truffle could ripen. Morra, born in La Morra in 1889 and died in Alba on 18 December 1963, remains the king of the truffle.
Alba is therefore a town that owes its worldwide fame to a question asked at the table, on a precise date. Giulia Dal Bon paints there with a brush, in the restaurants, the wine cellars, the hotels and the houses of the centre, using odourless acrylic and two sketches included. From 150 € per sqm, free quote within 48 hours.
Giulia also paints live in Alba. For a wedding, a birthday or a company evening, she sets up her easel and the painting takes shape in front of your guests, signed and taken home the same evening. From 950 € for a wedding, from 900 € for a company evening, from 400 € for a performance at a concert. For a wedding, see live wedding painting in the Langhe.
Your questions, before commissioning
A photo of the wall, its approximate dimensions and the idea you have in mind are enough to receive a quote.
How much does a mural cost in Alba?
Giulia Dal Bon’s price is per square metre: 150 € for a line drawing or a simple motif, 250 € for a fully painted subject, 350 € for trompe-l’oeil or a ceiling. A small mural in a bedroom costs less than a facade that needs preparation and scaffolding. The quote is free: see all prices.
How do I commission a mural in Alba?
Write to Giulia Dal Bon on WhatsApp or by email, even if the idea is still vague: she replies within 48 hours. Send her a photo of the wall to be painted, she draws a sketch straight onto your photo, you tell her what you think, and the first two sketches are free. Once the sketch is approved, she sends you the quote, from 150 € per sqm in Alba, and sets the date with you. She then comes and paints the mural at your place in Alba, by brush, and the place stays open while she works.
Does the price of a mural in Alba include the materials?
With Giulia Dal Bon, the price per square metre includes the paint and materials, the first two sketches, corrections during the work and the protective varnish as a finish. Added to the quote, when needed, are the scaffolding for a facade and travel costs, agreed together. The quote is free and arrives within 48 hours; a deposit of about 100 € for materials confirms the date, and the balance is settled at the end.
What kind of mural works well in Alba?
In Alba, cellar and tasting room designs, tied directly to wine and truffles. Everything is painted with a brush, in odourless acrylic.
Does it damage the wall?
Giulia paints on the existing plaster after a simple clean. If the wall is cracked or damp, she says so before the quote and explains what needs fixing. An acrylic mural can be painted over later like any wall paint.
Can I see the design before saying yes?
Yes, always. Giulia sends a digital sketch laid over the photo of your wall, with a detailed quote. The first two sketches are free, and she adjusts them with you.
Can a view of Alba be painted on a wall?
Yes. What draws the city comes down to a few elements. The medieval towers rising above the roofs, the brick facades of the centre, and the Langhe hills covered in vines all around. Giulia Dal Bon works with a brush, on the wall itself. A line-drawn view is 150 € per sqm, the same view fully painted from 250 €. Free quote within 48 hours.
What subject works well for a mural in Alba?
The most requested subjects: floral and botanical work for bedrooms and living rooms, landscapes for living spaces and terraces, trompe l’oeil for facades and ceilings. Everything is drawn to measure: Giulia offers two free sketches from your idea, and you refine it together until the subject is yours.
What is the difference between a hand-painted mural and spray-painted graffiti?
They are two different crafts. A graffiti artist works with spray cans, with a fast gesture and a graphic finish. A brush-painted mural is built layer by layer, which allows gradients, fine detail and trompe l’oeil: it is a painting made directly on the wall. Indoors, Giulia uses odourless acrylic. And while she paints, people take the time to watch: a brush at work is a show in itself. The choice depends on the finish you are after.
What do you call an artist who paints on walls?
A mural artist, a muralist, a wall artist or a decorative painter, and the art itself is called mural painting or wall art. Some come from graffiti and work with spray cans; Giulia Dal Bon comes from painting: trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, she exhibits her paintings in art galleries and paints commissioned murals with a brush. To have one painted, send her a photo of your wall: free quote within 48 hours.
Does a mural hold up outdoors in Alba?
Yes, with surface preparation and paints made for outdoor use. Piedmont winters are cold and damp. Outdoors, Giulia paints on a dry wall, in mild weather, on a frost-resistant base.
Do I need permission to paint a facade in Alba?
An interior wall can be painted freely. For a facade visible from the street, you usually need the owner’s or the building association’s approval, and a notice to the town hall if the building is in a protected area. Giulia explains the process before starting.
How long does it take to paint a mural?
It depends on the surface, the level of detail and how easy the wall is to reach. Giulia gives the timing with the quote, within 48 hours, and gives plenty of notice if the schedule moves. The place keeps running while she works: the acrylic is odourless.
How long does a mural last?
Painted in acrylic by Giulia Dal Bon, a mural lasts a lifetime indoors: the paint becomes part of the plaster and lives as long as the wall. Outdoors, quartz paint is made for facades, and an anti-salt or anti-pollution varnish extends it further. And if one day you want a change, it can be painted over like any wall paint.
Other spaces
The other places Giulia paints, her portfolio and the towns nearby.
Homes and villas
A bedroom, a hallway, a staircase: the walls you look at every day.
A mural for your home
Restaurants, hotels, and boutiques
A painted wall gives the room its character, and the place stays open while she works.
A mural for your restaurant
Ideas for spaces
The mural can stay essential or become more narrative. What matters is the relationship between wall, palette, material, and the time spent in the place.
Homes and villas
Homes, bedrooms, and dining rooms where painting can bring a calm, warm, embodied presence while keeping its simplicity.
Hotels, restaurants, and boutiques
Restaurants, hotels, and hospitality spaces can use the mural to bring memory, atmosphere, and a more personal visual signature.
A mural made for this place
Nearby towns
From Alba, the mural can open toward these nearby places.
The mural of over 20 metres for Gaber and Jannacci, in Milan, in the press
Giulia Dal Bon, trained at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan.
Where Giulia works in Alba
In Alba, whether it is a house, a villa, a second home or a flat, Giulia paints on an interior wall : the living room, the children’s bedroom and the bedroom. The same work applies to the kitchen, the bathroom, the entrance, the hallway and the stairwell. The ceiling is painted too: that is the €350 per sqm band, with trompe-l’oeil. Outside, on the exterior facade and the garden wall, she works in quartz paint. A mobile panel is painted separately, and moves with you.
In a restaurant, a pizzeria, a café or a bar in Alba, the painted wall is visible from every table. In a boutique and a shop, window and shutter are painted by hand, and change with the seasons. In a hotel and a B&B, she paints the lobbies, the corridors and the rooms. In a hair salon, a spa and a gym, she paints the walls of the cabins and of the main room. In a medical practice, a waiting room and a nursery, she paints the wall you face while you wait. For an office and a showroom, she paints reception, the corridor and the meeting room. A cellar is painted too, right down its stairs.
The subject comes from you. Giulia draws a landscape, a floral or botanical motif, a painted sky on a ceiling, a perspective trompe-l’oeil. She paints figures and animals, letters signs and lettering by hand, and reproduces a work you love.
Possible subjects in Alba: the Langhe hills covered in vines all around, the medieval towers rising above the roofs, the brick facades of the centre. Alongside these, a trompe-l’oeil window, a botanical motif or a painted sky remain possible.
A mural is also called a wall mural, an artistic painting on a wall, a wall decoration. People say mural decoration, decorative painting, trompe-l’oeil, hand-painted wall, drawing on a wall, or a painting made directly on the wall: in every case someone paints the wall by hand, layer after layer. In Alba, the craft is called mural artist, muralist, wall artist or decorative painter, and it is Giulia Dal Bon’s.
Alba lives on wine and truffles: cellars, producer shops, restaurants and guesthouses look for a visual identity that sets them apart during auction season.
Giulia also travels to Chivasso, Bra, Ivrea, Asti, Pinerolo, Alessandria, Chieri and Casale Monferrato.
Where the mural can find its place
- In a house, a farmhouse or a flat, she paints the living room, the bedroom, the kitchen, the entrance, the staircase, the cellar and the ceiling. From 150 € per sqm, free quote within 48h.
- In a wine cellar, a producer shop, a restaurant or a guesthouse, Giulia paints the tasting room wall, the dining room, the shop window and the reception. Free quote within 48h.
- The mural can stay essential or become more narrative