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Provence
Mural Artist in Provence
In Provence, Giulia Dal Bon paints murals with a brush, in houses, guest houses, workshops, 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 Provence
| 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 Provence, 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 Provence, by brush, and the place stays open while I work.
Murals shaped for Provence
From 1343 Matteo Giovannetti, a painter from Viterbo, led teams of painters from all over Europe at the Palace of the Popes in Avignon: the Stag Room, Clement VI’s private study, was covered between 1343 and 1345 with secular scenes of hunting and fishing, and the Saint-Martial chapel was frescoed between 1344 and 1345. Provence hosted one of the greatest mural painting worksites of the fourteenth century.
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.
Giulia also paints live at weddings in the area: the canvas advances during the cocktail hour and stays with the couple at the end. See live wedding painting.
In Provence, Giulia also paints live in front of an audience: a festival, an opening, a concert or a wedding. The canvas starts blank and ends signed, ready to hang. From 950 € for a wedding, from 400 € for a performance. See live painting →
Provence between stone and light
Here painting works with pale stone, renders and a light that has drawn painters for two centuries.
Houses and villas
Living rooms, bedrooms, entrances, verandas and ceilings in old-town houses and villas. Example: a 10 m² living room wall fully painted, around €2,500.
Hotels, restaurants and shops
Hotels, restaurants, bars and shops, often in older buildings with high ceilings. Example: a 15 m² wall fully painted, around €3,750.
Facades and exterior walls
The sun is strong and summers are hot: exteriors are painted in quartz paint, with light-stable pigments. 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 Provence?
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 Provence?
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 Provence, and sets the date with you. She then comes and paints the mural at your place shaped for Provence, by brush, and the place stays open while she works.
Can a Provençal landscape be painted on a wall?
Yes. The ochres of Roussillon, quarried since 1785 and reaching 40,000 tonnes of pigment in 1929, set the palette: yellows, reds, burnt earths. People ask for the Palace of the Popes and the bridge at Avignon, the calanques of Cassis, olive and almond trees, plane-shaded squares, roofs of round tiles. Giulia Dal Bon paints with a brush, on site. The price follows the technique: 150 € per sqm as a line drawing, 250 € for a fully painted view.
What does a mural quote shaped for Provence cover?
The square-metre price Giulia Dal Bon quotes 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 Provence?
In stone houses and Provençal villas, a botanical motif, a landscape or a perspective trompe-l’oeil work well on pale render. 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 Provence?
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?
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 Provence, 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 Provence, 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 Provence?
Yes, with surface preparation and quartz paint, made for outdoor walls. In Provence the sun is strong and the mistral frequent: light-stable pigments are used. 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 Provence, 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 Provence?
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 Provence
Within this Provençal axis, Avignon and Cassis also belong, with the same continuity of homes, small hotels, entryways, facades and passage spaces where painting meets stone and render.
Avignon
Avignon belongs here when the mural involves old residences, courtyards, hotels and venues in the papal centre.
Cassis
Cassis belongs to the same group for harbour houses, hotels, bedrooms and pale walls among the calanques.
One continuous coast
The method stays the same across this part of Provence: 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.
Nearby towns
A few places directly connected to this territory.
Avignon · Aix-en-Provence · Arles · Marseille · Toulon
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 Provence
In Provence, 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. 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 Provence, she paints the dining-room wall, and the tables stay laid. For a boutique and a shop, she paints the window, the shutter and the back wall. In a hotel and a B&B, the painted wall gives each room its own subject. For a hair salon, a spa and a gym, she paints the cabin, changing-room and reception walls. For a medical practice, a waiting room and a nursery, she paints the entrance and the waiting area. 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.
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 Provence, the craft is called mural artist, muralist, wall artist or decorative painter, and it is Giulia Dal Bon’s.
Provence runs from Avignon to the calanques, with hilltop villages, countryside and harbours where mural painting has a history reaching back to the fourteenth century: tall packed houses, trompe-l’oeil painted facades, seafront shops.
Giulia also travels to Aix-en-Provence, to Arles, to Marseille and to Toulon.
In the Vaucluse and the Luberon she works in Avignon, Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, Orange, Châteauneuf-du-Pape, Carpentras, Vaison-la-Romaine, Pernes-les-Fontaines, L’Isle-sur-la-Sorgue, Fontaine-de-Vaucluse, Gordes, Roussillon, Ménerbes, Bonnieux, Lacoste, Lourmarin, Ansouis, Cucuron, Apt, Cavaillon, Aix-en-Provence, Marseille, Arles, Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, Les Baux-de-Provence, Tarascon, Salon-de-Provence, Martigues, Cassis, La Ciotat, Aubagne, Manosque, Forcalquier, Sisteron, Digne-les-Bains, Moustiers-Sainte-Marie, Riez, Valensole, Gréoux-les-Bains, Sault and Nyons.
In the Alpilles and around Arles, Giulia travels to Saint-Rémy-de-Provence, to Les Baux-de-Provence, to Maussane-les-Alpilles, to Eygalières, to Fontvieille, to Arles and to Tarascon.
Around Aix and Marseille, Giulia travels to Aix-en-Provence, to Salon-de-Provence, to Éguilles, to Ventabren, to Cassis, to La Ciotat, to Aubagne and to Gémenos.
On the Var coast and in upper Provence, Giulia travels to Bandol, to Sanary-sur-Mer, to Six-Fours-les-Plages, to Toulon, to Hyères, to Manosque, to Forcalquier, to Moustiers-Sainte-Marie and to Sisteron.
Where the mural can find its place
- For 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, Giulia 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