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Positano
Mural artist in Positano
In Positano, Giulia Dal Bon paints murals with a brush, in villas, flats, hotels, restaurants and boutiques. Trained at the Brera Academy, she paints on site, from 400 € 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 Positano
| Simple motif or line drawingFine lines for flowers, patterns, silhouettes or figures… | 400 €/sqm |
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| Fully painted subjectColours and shadows for landscapes, portraits or scenes… | 600 €/sqm |
| Trompe-l’oeil or ceilingThe wall opens onto a false window, a sky on the ceiling or an entire landscape… | 800 €/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 Positano, 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 Positano, by brush, and the place stays open while I work.
Murals in Positano
Positano is nicknamed "the vertical town", for its peach, yellow, and pink houses stacked on the rock and connected by a network of stairways. The town has attracted painters, writers, and elite international tourism since the postwar years, and gave its name to a recognisable fashion made of linen and cotton in pastel tones. In Positano, Giulia paints for private villas, historic hotels, and shops. To start, a photo of the wall and its measurements are enough: Giulia draws the sketch straight onto it, then comes to paint on site.
What Giulia brings to Positano. 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.
What Giulia brings to Positano
Beneath the church of Santa Maria Assunta, in the heart of Positano, archaeologists from the Salerno Superintendency have uncovered a Roman villa buried by the lapilli of the eruption of Vesuvius in AD 79: wall frescoes almost intact, their colours still vivid, now on show in the Roman Archaeological Museum. Above, the church dome is clad in yellow, green and blue majolica, and on the altar stands a thirteenth-century Byzantine icon, the Black Madonna with Child.
Positano therefore keeps, a few metres apart, two ways of decorating a wall that have crossed the centuries: ancient fresco and majolica. Giulia Dal Bon paints there with a brush, in the stepped houses, hotels, terraces and seafront restaurants, using odourless acrylic colours indoors, quartz paint and anti-salt varnish outdoors. Prestige rate from 400 € per sqm, free quote within 48 hours.
Live painting is available in Positano too. Giulia arrives with canvas and paints, works through a wedding, a private evening or a brand event, and the painting is yours at the end of the evening. From 950 € for a wedding, from 400 € for a performance. See live painting →
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 Positano?
In Positano the rate reflects a high-standing destination: 400 € per square metre for a line drawing or a simple motif, 600 € for a fully painted subject, 800 € for trompe-l’oeil or a ceiling. The quote is free: see all prices.
How do I get a mural painted in my home in Positano?
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 400 € per sqm in Positano, and sets the date with you. She then comes and paints the mural at your place in Positano, by brush, and the place stays open while she works.
What does the price of a mural in Positano include?
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.
I’d like a mural or a painting on a wall of my home in Positano, 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 Positano 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 Positano?
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 Positano be painted on a wall?
Yes, and the city lends itself to it. The vertical town: the peach, yellow and pink houses stacked one above the other, the majolica dome of Santa Maria Assunta, the steps running down to the beach. Giulia Dal Bon paints it with a brush, on site. The rate follows the technique: 400 € per sqm for a line drawing, 600 € for a fully painted view. Free quote within 48 hours.
What subject works well for a mural in Positano?
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. For a mural in Positano, the possible subjects, room by room, are gathered in the guide What subject to choose for a mural.
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 Positano?
Yes, with surface preparation suited to the coast’s sea air. 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 Positano?
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: the Amalfi Coast, a UNESCO World Heritage site, is largely protected. 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.
Home and villa murals
Restaurants, hotels, and boutiques
A painted wall gives the room its character, and the place stays open while she works.
Restaurant and café murals
Other cities
From Positano, the mural can open toward these places.
Amalfi Coast · Amalfi · Ravello · Capri · Naples
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 Positano
In Positano, for a private client, in a villa or an apartment, 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 is painted the same way, from the scaffold. Outdoors, she uses quartz paint on the exterior facade and the terrace, with a protective varnish to finish. In a rented place, she paints on a mobile panel that you take with you.
In a restaurant in Positano, she paints the dining-room wall, and service carries on while she works. For a boutique, she paints the window, the shutter and the back wall. In a hotel, the painted wall gives each room its own subject. In a spa, she paints the walls of the cabins and of the main room.
In the centre, by Spiaggia Grande, in Montepertuso or in Nocelle, a photo of the wall and its dimensions are enough to start: Giulia draws the sketch straight onto it.
The subject is decided together. A landscape opens up the far end of a room, a floral or botanical motif runs along a wall, a painted sky fills a ceiling, a perspective trompe-l’oeil draws a window on a solid wall. Giulia also paints figures, animals, lettering, painted signs, and reproduces an existing work when you ask her to.
Possible subjects in Positano: the steps running down to the beach, the vertical town: the peach, yellow and pink houses stacked one above the other, the majolica dome of Santa Maria Assunta. A trompe-l’oeil window, a botanical motif and a painted sky work just as well.
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 Positano: mural artist, muralist, wall artist, decorative painter.
Positano is nicknamed "the vertical town", with its colourful houses stacked on the rock, on the UNESCO-listed Amalfi Coast.
Giulia also travels to Praiano, Salerno, Sant’Agnello, Scala, Tramonti, Vico Equense, Agerola and Anacapri.
Where the mural can find its place
- For a villa or a residence, Giulia paints the living room, the bedroom, the terrace, the entrance and the ceiling. From 400 € per sqm, free quote within 48h.
- In a hotel, a restaurant or a boutique, Giulia paints the reception wall, the dining room and the shop window. Free quote within 48h.
- Giulia also travels to Amalfi, Ravello, and throughout the Amalfi Coast.