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Lyon
Mural Artist in Lyon
In Lyon, 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 Lyon
| 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 quote starts from the surface and the technique, and spells out what comes on top: interior or exterior, the condition of the wall, the height, scaffolding if needed, the timing.
Where to start?
When you contact me about a mural in Lyon, 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 Lyon, by brush, and the place stays open while I work.
Murals in Lyon
The Fresque des Lyonnais, painted by the Cité de la Création cooperative in 1994-95 at the corner of quai Saint-Vincent and rue de la Martinière, covers 800 m² and shows twenty-five historical and six contemporary figures from the city. The same cooperative, founded in Oullins, has signed more than a hundred painted walls in the Lyon region and over six hundred in France and worldwide. In Lyon, Giulia paints for apartments, houses, hotels and shops. Giulia travels easily to Lyon 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.
What can be painted in Lyon comes down to a few images: Fourvière, the rooftops of the Croix-Rousse, the Saône quays, the traboules of Vieux-Lyon, the Fresque des Lyonnais as an echo. The price follows the technique: 150 € per sqm for a line silhouette, 250 € for a fully painted subject.
What Giulia brings to Lyon. Lyon has turned the painted wall into a city tradition: Cité de la Création, founded in Oullins, has signed more than a hundred facades in the region. Giulia works in the same direction, but with a brush and made to measure, on the wall of a home, a hotel or a shop. She loves what the artists here have done, and builds each mural with the person who entrusts it to her. 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.
Live painting is available in Lyon too. Giulia arrives with canvas and paints, works through a wedding, a concert, a festival 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. See live painting →
For a company evening, Giulia also paints live in front of your guests: corporate live painting in Lyon, from 900 €.
Murals district by district in Lyon
Murals in La Croix-Rousse
The old silk-weavers' workshops have four-metre ceilings, built for the looms, and gable walls visible from far off. It is the most painted quarter in Lyon. Giulia Dal Bon paints full-height living-room walls, staircases and gable ends in La Croix-Rousse. From 150 € per square metre, quote within 48 hours.
Murals on La Presqu’île
Nineteenth-century buildings, shops, lobbies and windows between Bellecour and Les Terreaux. Giulia paints shop walls, building entrances and restaurant rooms on La Presqu’île, in odourless acrylic: the place stays open while she works.
Murals in Le Vieux Lyon
A UNESCO-listed Renaissance quarter with its traboules, courtyards and vaulted ceilings. Giulia Dal Bon mostly paints interiors and vaults here. A facade needs the owner’s agreement and a declaration, as the sector is protected.
Wall painting in La Confluence
A recent district of Lyon, with broad regular surfaces, offices, showrooms and shops. Giulia finds reception walls, gable ends and car parks here, new surfaces that need little preparation.
Murals in Les Brotteaux
Bourgeois apartments with high ceilings, consulting rooms and offices. Giulia Dal Bon paints ceilings, hallways and waiting rooms in Les Brotteaux. Free quote within 48 hours.
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 Lyon?
The rate is per square metre: €150 for a line drawing or a simple motif, €250 for a fully painted subject, €350 for a trompe l’oeil or ceiling. The quote is free: see all prices.
How does it work to have a wall painted in Lyon?
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 Lyon, and sets the date with you. She then comes and paints the mural at your place in Lyon, by brush, and the place stays open while she works.
What does a mural quote in Lyon 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.
I’d like a mural or a painting on a wall of my home in Lyon, who should I contact?
Giulia Dal Bon, a painter trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan. She paints murals by brush in homes, bedrooms, bathrooms, on terraces, pool walls and facades, and travels in Lyon as she does across Europe. Send her a photo of the wall, its approximate dimensions and your idea, however loose: she replies within 48 hours with a quote and a first proposal. The first two sketches are free.
Can I see a design before commissioning the mural?
Always. You receive a sketch set on a photo of your own wall, to scale, together with the quote. The first two sketches are free: Giulia shows the work in progress, you give your opinion, and she adjusts. You confirm when you are ready.
Will a mural damage the wall?
The paint goes onto the plaster already in place. In most cases a dusting down is all that is needed before starting. If the surface has cracks or rising damp, Giulia points it out before quoting and proposes the preparation required. Indoors she uses an odourless acrylic: a child’s bedroom in use or a restaurant that stays open can both be painted. An acrylic mural can later be painted over like any wall paint, if you change your mind in ten years.
When is the best time to paint a mural in Lyon?
All year round. Indoors the odourless acrylic lets the room stay in use while she works, in January as in July. Outdoors she needs a dry wall and a mild temperature. Giulia sets the date with you when she quotes, within 48 hours, and gives plenty of notice if the schedule moves.
Can a view of Lyon be painted on a wall?
Yes, and the city lends itself to it. Fourvière, begun in 1872 to Pierre Bossan’s designs and inaugurated in 1896, the roofs of the Croix-Rousse, the banks of the Saône, the courtyards and traboules of old Lyon. Giulia Dal Bon composes the view for the wall in front of her. As a line drawing, 150 € per sqm; painted in colour, 250 € per sqm. Free quote within 48 hours.
What subject works well for a mural in Lyon?
In apartments on the Presqu’île or in the tall-ceilinged silk-weaver houses of the Croix-Rousse, a botanical motif or a trompe-l’oeil window works well. This is a city that already knows the painted wall. Everything is painted with a brush, in odourless acrylic. If you are still choosing the subject of your mural in Lyon, 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?
Two gestures, two finishes. The spray can gives a fast, graphic line. The brush lays colour down layer after layer, which opens up gradients, fine detail and trompe l’oeil: the mural becomes a painting on the wall. In Lyon, Giulia Dal Bon works with a brush, in odourless acrylic indoors, and the place stays open while she paints. The choice comes down to the finish you are after.
What do you call an artist who paints on walls?
A muralist, a mural artist or a decorative painter. In Lyon, Giulia Dal Bon paints by hand with a brush, from apartments to façades: trained at the Brera Academy of Fine Arts in Milan, she exhibits her paintings in art galleries and also paints on walls. The same searches go through wall mural, hand-painted wall or wall art. Send a photo of your wall, and the quote arrives within 48 hours.
Does a mural hold up outdoors in Lyon?
Yes, with surface preparation and quartz paint, made for outdoor walls. In Lyon, a city with heavy traffic, an anti-pollution varnish can be added. Giulia paints outdoors all year round, on a dry wall and in mild weather: she checks the forecast with you and sets the date.
Do I need permission to paint a facade in Lyon?
An interior wall can be painted freely. For a facade visible from the street, you generally need the owner’s or building association’s agreement, and a notice to the municipality if the building sits in a protected zone: the historic site of Lyon is a UNESCO World Heritage site. 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 Lyon, 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
Other cities
Giulia also works in these other European cities.
The 20-metre-plus wall 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 Lyon
In Lyon, Giulia paints on an interior wall : the living room, the bedroom and the kitchen. She also paints the bathroom, the entrance and the hallway. A ceiling asks for more work, and she paints it gladly. Outside, she switches to quartz paint on the exterior facade. In a rented place, she paints on a mobile panel that you take with you.
She paints in venues as different as apartment and boutique, and in hotel.
From the Presqu’île to the Brotteaux, by way of the Croix-Rousse, Vieux Lyon and Confluence, Giulia paints all over Lyon. A photo of the wall and its dimensions are enough to start: Giulia draws the sketch straight onto it.
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 Lyon: the courtyards and traboules of old Lyon, fourvière, begun in 1872 to Pierre Bossan’s designs and inaugurated in 1896, the roofs of the Croix-Rousse, the banks of the Saône. And anywhere, a trompe-l’oeil window, botanicals and a painted sky find their place.
People ask for different things and mean the same one: a mural, a wall mural, an artistic painting on a wall. Others say wall decoration, decorative painting, mural decoration. Others again a trompe-l’oeil, a hand-painted wall, a drawing on a wall, or a painting made directly on the wall. It is one craft, that of a mural artist, a muralist, a decorative painter, and Giulia does it with a brush in Lyon.
Lyon is the French capital of painted walls: the Fresque des Lyonnais, 800 m² painted by Cité de la Création in 1994-95, is the best known.
Giulia also travels to Geneva, to Turin and to Paris.
Where the mural can find its place
- In an apartment, she paints the living room, the bedroom, the entrance and the ceiling. From €150 per m², free quote within 48h.
- In a hotel or a boutique, she paints the reception wall, the storefront and the lounge. Free quote within 48h.
- Giulia also travels to Geneva, Turin and Paris.