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Corsica
Mural Artist in Corsica
In Corsica, Giulia Dal Bon paints murals with a brush, in houses, villas, 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 Corsica
| 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 shaped for Corsica, 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 shaped for Corsica, by brush, and the place stays open while I work.
Murals shaped for Corsica
Bastia was founded by the Genoese in 1381, and the island kept from those Genoese centuries a taste for painted decoration: in the nineteenth century Corsican houses still had painted ceilings and trompe-l’oeil made for them, and the cathedral of Santa Maria in Bastia holds several, in baroque style. It is the same tradition as the painted facades of Liguria, carried across the sea.
What Giulia brings. 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 written about her work, and her mural of over twenty metres dedicated to Gaber and Jannacci can be seen in Milan. The wall is her favourite canvas because it truly becomes part of a place, a unique work made to tell your story.
Corsica between stone and sea
Here painting works with stone, old renders and a strong light that shifts through the day.
Houses and villas
Living rooms, bedrooms, entrances, verandas and ceilings in village houses and seaside villas. Example: a 10 m² living room wall fully painted, around €2,500.
Hotels, restaurants and shops
Hotels, restaurants, bars and shops, from the harbours to the Genoese citadels. Example: a 15 m² wall fully painted, around €3,750.
Facades and exterior walls
Near the sea salt is a real factor and the wind is constant: exteriors are painted in quartz paint, with anti-salt varnish on request. From €150 per m², plus scaffolding if needed.
Where Giulia paints in Corsica
A few places directly connected to this territory.
What Giulia brings to Corsica
In the Bozio, the chapel of San Nicolao at Sermano keeps its wall paintings of 1450-1460: in the apse a Christ in majesty between the Virgin and John the Baptist, the twelve apostles in the lower register, and on the south wall Saint Michael weighing souls and Saint Christopher carrying the Child. It is the masterpiece of a series: in the fifteenth century dozens of Corsican mountain chapels were painted this way.
Corsica is therefore an island where painted walls are a village habit rather than a city luxury. Giulia Dal Bon paints there with a brush, in houses, hotels, restaurants and villas, all over the island, using odourless acrylic indoors and quartz paint with an anti-salt varnish facing the sea. From 150 € per sqm, free quote within 48 hours.
Live painting is available in Corsica too. Giulia arrives with canvas and paints, works through a wedding, a concert or a company evening, and the painting is yours at the end of the evening. From 950 € for a wedding, from 900 € for a company evening, from 400 € for a performance at a concert. For a wedding, everything is on the live wedding painting in Corsica page.
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 Corsica?
Giulia Dal Bon charges by the 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 shaped for Corsica?
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 shaped for Corsica, and sets the date with you. She then comes and paints the mural at your place shaped for Corsica, by brush, and the place stays open while she works.
What does a mural quote shaped for Corsica 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.
What kind of mural works well in Corsica?
In village houses and seaside villas, a botanical motif, a landscape or a perspective trompe-l’oeil work well on pale render and on stone. Everything is painted with a brush, in odourless acrylic.
Does it damage the wall?
The paint goes onto the plaster already in place. Dusting it down is usually enough. If the surface has cracks or rising damp, Giulia flags it before quoting.
Can I see the design before saying yes?
Always. You get a sketch mounted on the photo of your wall, to scale, with the quote. You confirm whenever you are ready, and she adjusts the design with you.
What subject works well for a mural in Corsica?
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.
What is the difference between a hand-painted mural and spray-painted graffiti?
Spray can and brush give two different results. The brush works in layers, which makes gradients, fine detail and trompe l’oeil possible: that is why a mural can be looked at like a painting. In Corsica, Giulia Dal Bon paints by hand, in odourless acrylic indoors and quartz paint outdoors. A painting made by hand shows, and it stands out all the more today.
What do you call an artist who paints on walls?
A muralist, or a decorative painter; the word fresco painter exists too, for the old technique. In Corsica, that is the work of Giulia Dal Bon: trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, she exhibits her paintings in art galleries and paints commissioned murals with a brush. People also search for it as mural painting, wall mural or hand-painted wall. Send her a photo of your wall: free quote within 48 hours.
Does a mural hold up outdoors in Corsica?
Yes, with surface preparation and quartz paint, made for outdoor walls. In Corsica the sun is strong, the wind constant and near the sea the air is salty: an anti-salt varnish is added on request. Giulia paints outdoors all year round, on a dry wall and in mild weather: she checks the forecast with you and sets the date. For a facade in Corsica, the paint, the wall preparation and how long it lasts are explained in the mural paint and durability guide.
Do I need permission to paint a facade in Corsica?
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
At home, Giulia paints the living room, a bedroom, the entrance or the staircase. Made to measure, from 150 € per sqm.
A mural for your home
Hotels, restaurants, and boutiques
In a hotel or a boutique, she paints reception, the bedrooms and the shop window. From 150 to 350 € per sqm depending on the technique.
Hotel and boutique murals
Ideas for spaces
The mural can be floral, vegetal, maritime, narrative, or more restrained. What matters most is the relationship between painting, surface, and the way the place is lived.
Homes and villas
Village houses, sea-facing apartments, entryways, staircases, and rooms where color can make the wall feel warmer and more alive.
Hotels, restaurants, and boutiques
Restaurants, small hotels, boutiques, and places that want atmosphere while keeping the honesty of the material and the light.
A mural made for this place
Other places naturally included in Corsica
Within this Corsican axis, Ajaccio and Bonifacio also belong, with the same continuity of homes, small hotels, entryways, facades and passage spaces where painting meets stone and plaster.
Ajaccio
Ajaccio belongs here when the mural involves facades in the centre, courtyards, small businesses and venues by the harbour.
Bonifacio
Bonifacio belongs to the same group for the houses of the upper town, hotels, bedrooms and pale walls facing the sea.
One continuous coast
The method stays the same across this part of Corsica: the mural begins from the real surface, the way the wall is seen, the rhythm of the place, and the way people move through it.
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 Corsica
In Corsica, for a private client, in a house, a villa, a second home or a flat, she paints on an interior wall : the living room, the children’s bedroom and the bedroom. She paints the kitchen, the bathroom, the entrance, the hallway and the stairwell just as readily. A ceiling is painted like a wall, working overhead. On the exterior facade and the garden wall, quartz paint takes over from acrylic: it is made for facades. She also paints on a mobile panel, when the wall belongs to someone else.
In a restaurant, a pizzeria, a café or a bar in Corsica, the room stays open while she paints: the acrylic is odourless. In a boutique and a shop, the painted window is seen from the street, and the shutter stays painted after closing. In a hotel and a B&B, she paints reception, the stairwell and the bedrooms. 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 reception wall and the corridor. 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.
As for the subject, Giulia draws what you want to see on that particular wall: a landscape, a floral or botanical motif, a painted sky on a ceiling, a perspective trompe-l’oeil, figures, animals, lettering or a painted sign. She also reproduces an existing work. Two sketches come to you before the first brushstroke.
Possible subjects in Corsica: the hill villages and the maquis, the gulfs and the coves, the painted ceilings and trompe-l’oeil the island has commissioned since the nineteenth century. And always the trompe-l’oeil window, the botanical motif and the painted sky on a ceiling.
Very different words lead to the same search: mural, wall mural, artistic painting on a wall, wall decoration, mural decoration, decorative painting. Trompe-l’oeil is one form of it, a hand-painted wall and a drawing on a wall are others, and some look for a painting made directly on the wall. Behind those words, one craft in Corsica: mural artist, muralist, wall artist, decorative painter.
Corsica brings together Genoese citadels, coastlines and mountain villages: tall packed houses, trompe-l’oeil painted facades, seafront shops.
Giulia also travels to Ajaccio, to Bonifacio, to Calvi and to Porto-Vecchio.
She also works in Ajaccio, Bastia, Bonifacio, Calvi, Porto-Vecchio, Saint-Florent, L’Île-Rousse, Corte, Propriano, Sartène, Cargèse, Piana, Erbalunga, Macinaggio, Centuri, Zonza, Solenzara, Ghisonaccia, Aléria, Lumio, Algajola and Pigna.
Where the mural can find its place
- In a house, a flat or a villa, Giulia paints the living room, the bedroom, the kitchen, the entrance, the staircase, the courtyard and the exterior wall. From 150 € per sqm, free quote within 48h.
- In a restaurant, a bar, an ice cream shop, a shop or a hotel, she paints the dining room wall, the shop window, the shutter and the facade. Free quote within 48h.
- The mural can be floral, vegetal, maritime, narrative, or more restrained