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San Sebastián
Mural artist in San Sebastián
In San Sebastián, Giulia Dal Bon paints murals with a brush, in villas, flats, hotels, restaurants and on terraces. 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 San Sebastián
| 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 in San Sebastián, 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 San Sebastián, by brush, and the place stays open while I work.
Murals in San Sebastián
Tabakalera, the former tobacco factory in the Egia district, made cigarettes for ninety years, from 1913 to 2003, before reopening in September 2015 as an International Centre for Contemporary Culture, on one of the largest urban plots in the city. San Sebastián is also one of the most Michelin-starred cities in Europe per inhabitant, and restaurants and hotels stand out through the quality of every detail. In San Sebastián, Giulia paints for apartments on the bay, Parte Vieja restaurants and hotels. Giulia travels easily to San Sebastián 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 Giulia brings to San Sebastián. 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.
San Sebastián, between La Concha and the Parte Vieja
Here a mural enters a city of gastronomy and culture, where restaurants and hotels stand out through the quality of every detail.
Houses and apartments
Bedrooms, living rooms, hallways, entrances and ceilings of the Belle Époque apartments on the bay and in the Gros district. Example: an 8 sqm living room wall fully painted, around 2 000 €.
Restaurants, hotels and shops
Restaurants, pintxos bars, hotels, shops and windows in the Parte Vieja and the centre. A hand-painted mural belongs to this place alone, and it is what people remember about it. From 150 € per sqm.
Facades and exterior walls
Atlantic air and frequent rain test the facades: quartz paint on a perfectly dry wall, with anti-salt varnish on request. A facade visible from the street generally needs the owner’s or building association’s agreement. From 150 € per sqm, plus scaffolding if needed.
What Giulia brings to San Sebastián
Between 17 August and 3 September 1977 the three sculptures of Eduardo Chillida’s Comb of the Wind were installed at the end of Ondarreta beach, ten tonnes each, wedged into the rock facing the Bay of Biscay. The architect Luis Peña Ganchegui designed the square around them, with vents that blow when the sea rises.
San Sebastián is therefore a city that gave an artist the last rock of its bay. Giulia Dal Bon paints there with a brush, in the flats of the centre, the hotels, the restaurants, the gastronomic societies and the shops, using odourless acrylic indoors and quartz paint with an anti-salt varnish along the seafront. From 150 € per sqm, free quote within 48 hours.
Live painting is available in San Sebastián too. Giulia arrives with canvas and paints, works through a seaside wedding, a summer evening or a birthday, and the painting is yours at the end of the evening. From 950 € for a wedding, from 400 € for a performance. For a wedding, see live wedding painting in Biarritz.
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 San Sebastián?
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 do I commission a mural in San Sebastián?
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 San Sebastián, and sets the date with you. She then comes and paints the mural at your place in San Sebastián, by brush, and the place stays open while she works.
Does the price of a mural in San Sebastián include the materials?
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.
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 San Sebastián?
In San Sebastián, dining-room decors in the restaurants and pintxos bars of the Parte Vieja, and sea subjects in apartments on La Concha. 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 San Sebastián be painted on a wall?
Yes, and the city lends itself to it. The half-circle of La Concha bay, the white seafront railing, Monte Urgull on one side and Igueldo on the other. Giulia Dal Bon paints all of it with a brush. As a line drawing, the view falls under the 150 € per sqm rate; with colour and shadow, it starts at 250 € per sqm. Free quote within 48 hours.
What subject works well for a mural in San Sebastián?
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 San Sebastián, 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 San Sebastián, 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 San Sebastián?
Yes, with surface preparation and quartz paint, made for outdoor walls. In San Sebastián it rains often and the air is Atlantic: the wall must be perfectly dry, and an anti-salt varnish is added on request.
Do I need permission to paint a facade in San Sebastián?
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?
The murals Giulia Dal Bon paints last 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
Ideas for spaces
The mural can stay simple or take on a stronger wall presence. It depends on scale, function, circulation, and the way the wall is seen.
Homes and villas
Villas, apartments, and bedrooms where the mural can live with strong light, larger volumes, and refined materials while staying understated.
Hotels, restaurants, and boutiques
Hotels, restaurants, boutiques, and image-led spaces where painting can become a very recognizable and immediately elegant presence.
A mural made for this place
Nearby towns
From San Sebastián, the mural can open toward these nearby places.
French Riviera · Madrid · Barcelona · Bordeaux · Porto
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 San Sebastián
In San Sebastián, 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 also paints the kitchen, the bathroom, the entrance, the hallway and the stairwell. A ceiling is painted the same way, from the scaffold. Outdoors, she uses quartz paint on the exterior facade and the garden wall, with a protective varnish to finish. A mobile panel is painted separately, and moves with you.
In a restaurant, a pizzeria, a café or a bar in San Sebastián, the room stays open while she paints: the acrylic is odourless. In a boutique and a shop, window and shutter are painted by hand, and change with the seasons. 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 wall you look at while you wait. In a medical practice, a waiting room and a nursery, she paints the waiting room and the corridor leading to it. In an office and a showroom, she paints the wall the teams walk past every day. A cellar is painted too, right down its stairs.
In Parte Vieja, Centro, Gros, Antiguo and Egia, a photo of the wall is enough to start: Giulia draws the sketch onto it, and your idea comes together with her.
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 San Sebastián: monte Urgull on one side and Igueldo on the other, the half-circle of La Concha bay, the white seafront railing. And always the trompe-l’oeil window, the botanical motif and the painted sky on a ceiling.
The craft goes by several names, and each of them is right about something. Mural and wall mural speak of the wall, wall decoration and mural decoration speak of the room, decorative painting speaks of the gesture, trompe-l’oeil speaks of the effect. A hand-painted wall, a drawing on a wall, a painting made directly on the wall: still the same thing. In San Sebastián, it is called a mural artist, a muralist, a wall artist, a decorative painter.
San Sebastián brings together La Concha bay, the pintxos bars of the Parte Vieja and Tabakalera, the former tobacco factory turned contemporary culture centre in 2015.
Giulia also travels to L’Île-Rousse, Macinaggio, Piana, Pigna, Propriano, Saint-Florent, Sartène and Solenzara.
Where the mural can find its place
- In a flat, a villa or a house, Giulia paints the living room, the bedroom, the entrance, the hallway, the covered terrace and the ceiling. From 150 € per sqm, free quote within 48h.
- For a hotel, a suite, a restaurant, a boutique or a spa, Giulia paints the bedroom wall, the lobby, the shop window and the dining room. Free quote within 48h.
- The mural can stay simple or take on a stronger wall presence