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Bordeaux
Mural artist in Bordeaux
In Bordeaux, Giulia Dal Bon paints murals with a brush, in flats, hotels, restaurants, offices 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 Bordeaux
| 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
The price is based on the surface and the technique; the quote then takes into account interior or exterior, the condition of the wall, the height, scaffolding if needed and the timing.
Where to start?
When you contact me about a mural in Bordeaux, 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 Bordeaux, by brush, and the place stays open while I work.
Murals in Bordeaux
Les Bassins des Lumières, which opened on 10 June 2020 inside the former German submarine base, is the largest digital art centre in the world: three times the surface of the Carrières des Lumières and five times that of the Atelier des Lumières in Paris. This is a city used to monumental imagery. In Bordeaux, Giulia paints the walls of stone townhouses, apartments, hotels, wine cellars and boutiques. Giulia travels easily to Bordeaux to paint: you send her a photo of the wall and she draws the sketch straight onto it, so you see the mural in place before she travels.
The subjects of Bordeaux are chosen in the street: the place de la Bourse and the water mirror, the curve of the Garonne, the blond stone facades, the vineyards of the Médoc and Saint-Émilion, the cannelé, as a wink. Drawn in line they are 150 € per sqm; painted in colour and volume, 250 €.
What Giulia brings to Bordeaux. 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. Corriere della Sera, Domus and Sky Arte have covered her work, and her mural of more than twenty metres dedicated to Gaber and Jannacci stands in Milan. The wall is her favourite canvas because it truly becomes part of a place, a unique work made to tell your story.
Giulia also paints live in Bordeaux. For a wedding, a concert, a festival 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 Bordeaux.
Bordeaux, between pale stone and wine cellars
Here a mural works with listed facades, tall entrance halls and converted wine warehouses.
Homes and villas
Living rooms, bedrooms, corridors, entrance halls, stairwells and ceilings in stone townhouses. Example: a 12 m² living room ceiling in trompe-l’oeil, around €4,200.
Hotels, restaurants and shops
Restaurants, cafés, shops, showrooms, storefronts and wine cellars open to the public. A hand-painted mural belongs to this place alone, and it is what people remember about it. From €150 per m².
Facades and exterior walls
Bordeaux limestone is soft and absorbent, so the surface needs careful preparation. Exteriors are painted in quartz paint. From €150 per m², plus scaffolding if needed.
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 Bordeaux?
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 does it work to have a wall painted in Bordeaux?
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 Bordeaux, and sets the date with you. She then comes and paints the mural at your place in Bordeaux, by brush, and the place stays open while she works.
What does a mural quote in Bordeaux cover?
Giulia Dal Bon’s price per square metre includes the paint and materials, the first two sketches and the protective varnish as a finish. While she paints, you tell her what you think, and she adjusts. 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.
Can I see the design before saying yes?
Yes. Before any agreement, Giulia shows you the sketch on a photo of your wall, with a detailed price. Two free sketches are proposed to you before you confirm, and she adjusts them with you.
What kind of mural works well in Bordeaux?
In Bordeaux, entrance halls and ceilings, because the stone townhouses have great height. Everything is painted with a brush, in odourless acrylic.
Does it damage the wall?
The wall stays intact. Acrylic bonds to a painted or plastered wall, which keeps its finish and needs only a light preparation. And if you change your mind in ten years, a roller of paint covers it.
Can a view of Bordeaux be painted on a wall?
Yes, and the subjects are right there in front of you. The Place de la Bourse, built from 1730 to 1775 by Jacques Gabriel and his son Ange-Jacques, the water mirror laid in front of it in 2006 to Michel Corajoud’s design, its 3,450 square metres of reflections, and the curve of the Garonne quays. 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 Bordeaux?
The subjects that work here: 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. If you are still choosing the subject of your mural in Bordeaux, the guide What subject to choose for a mural reviews the options room by room.
What is the difference between a hand-painted mural and spray-painted graffiti?
A graffiti artist works with spray cans, and the line is fast and graphic. Giulia Dal Bon paints with a brush: the layers go on one after another, which allows gradients, fine detail and trompe l’oeil. A mural in Bordeaux becomes a painting made directly on the wall, by hand. While she works, people take the time to watch and take photos.
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. 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 Bordeaux?
Yes, with surface preparation and quartz paint, made for outdoor walls. Bordeaux limestone is soft and absorbent, so the base needs careful preparation before painting.
Do I need permission to paint a facade in Bordeaux?
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?
An acrylic 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. In Bordeaux, on a façade exposed to traffic, Giulia can also propose an anti-pollution paint, which turns part of the nitrogen oxides under daylight. The option is priced in the quote.
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
Here the mural can work through color, landscape, figuration, or a simpler painterly motif. What matters is the calm force of the gesture.
Homes and villas
Apartments, bedrooms, corridors, staircases, and ceilings where a mural can bring depth and presence while keeping their sobriety.
Hotels, restaurants, and boutiques
Restaurants, hotels, boutiques, and studios where painting can deepen the tone of the place and support the welcome.
A mural made for this place
Nearby towns
From Bordeaux, 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 Bordeaux
In Bordeaux, for a private client, in 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. Outdoors, she uses quartz paint on the exterior facade and the garden wall, with a protective varnish to finish. She also paints on a mobile panel, to carry the painting elsewhere.
In a restaurant, a pizzeria, a café or a bar in Bordeaux, the room stays open while she paints: the acrylic is odourless. For a boutique and a shop, she paints the window, the shutter and the back wall. 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 treatment-room walls and the reception area. In a medical practice, a waiting room and a nursery, she paints the waiting room and the corridor leading to it. For an office and a showroom, she paints reception, the corridor and the meeting room. A vaulted cellar takes the same paint, right up to the ceiling.
In Chartrons, Saint-Pierre, Saint-Michel, Bassins à flot and Caudéran, you send her a photo of the wall and she draws the sketch straight onto it, then you shape the idea together.
Possible subjects in Bordeaux: the place de la Bourse and the water mirror, the curve of the Garonne, the blond stone facades, the vineyards of the Médoc and Saint-Émilion, the cannelé, as a wink. And always the trompe-l’oeil window, the botanical motif and the painted sky on a ceiling.
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 Bordeaux, the craft is called mural artist, muralist, wall artist or decorative painter, and it is Giulia Dal Bon’s.
Bordeaux lines up 18th-century pale stone facades, private townhouses and converted wine warehouses, with Les Bassins des Lumières inside the former submarine base.
Giulia also travels to Paris, to Lyon and to Marseille.
Where the mural can find its place
- In a flat or a house, Giulia paints the hall, the stairwell, the living room, the bedroom, the corridor and the ceiling. From 150 € per sqm, free quote within 48h.
- For a historic cafe, a restaurant, a shop, an office or a practice, Giulia paints the dining room wall, the shop window, the reception and the waiting room. Free quote within 48h.
- Here the mural can work through color, landscape, figuration, or a simpler painterly motif