Gordon Collett ArtsGordon Collett Arts
Mural, Trompe l’Oeil, Portrait & Bookplate Artist. Est.1995.
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Tall Tales & Fun Murals

Wonderland Mural, Surrey 2019

Wonderland Mural
(Surrey 2019)
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This one was for the proprietors of Elizium, an alternative and gothic clothing company. Acrylic/emulsion on board, 150 x 150 cms. 1995.

The Dark Alchemist.
For a little boy's room, Chertsey, Surrey. Executed in emulsion on emulsion, 3 x 5 ms, completed September 2005

"Clouds"

The client lives on the 7th floor of a high-rise, so this is a sky in the sky. Executed in acrylics and emulsion, on plaster.
The site is a basement swimming pool room in a large London house. There are existing architectural features which lead me to this design. There is a coffered ceiling over the pool, supported on four columns, which would lead to the effect of it being the single still-standing building in a deluged ruined Atlantis.

A full scale sunken Atlantis fantasy trompe l’œil. Proposal drawings of theme for a large basement swimming pool room in London.
The site is a basement swimming pool room in a large London house. There are existing architectural features which lead me to this design. There is a coffered ceiling over the pool, supported on four columns, which would lead to the effect of it being the single still-standing building in a deluged ruined Atlantis.The site is a basement swimming pool room in a large London house. There are existing architectural features which lead me to this design. There is a coffered ceiling over the pool, supported on four columns, which would lead to the effect of it being the single still-standing building in a deluged ruined Atlantis.
Executed in acrylics, 4.5 x 3.3 metres. On site, September 2010

St. Edwards First School, Windsor, Berkshire. Nursery area fairy-tale mural.
Executed in acrylics, 4.5 x 3.3 metres. On site, September 2010
Acrylic on plaster and wallpaper, approximately 1 x 1.2 metres. The image was inspired by both the story and ballet. I have used

Sleeping Beauty, Ballet Mural
Acrylic on plaster and wallpaper, approximately 1 x 1.2 metres. The image was inspired by both the story and ballet. I have used
the girl being rather fond of horses! Acrylic on emulsion, approximately 2.2 x 0.8 metres

Steeple Chase Mural
the girl being rather fond of horses! Acrylic on emulsion, approximately 2.2 x 0.8 metres
In this commission the clients wanted something to fill an architectural oddity of their breakfast room, a shelf over the ceiling of an adjoining utility room. I came up with a minstrels gallery with a frog jazz quartet. The medium is acrylic on to emulsion on plaster. Plus MDF cut-outs. Completed June 2007.

Frog Jazz Quartet cut-outs and background Surrey, June 2007.
In this commission the clients wanted something to fill an architectural oddity of their breakfast room, a shelf over the ceiling of an adjoining utility room. I came up with a minstrels gallery with a frog jazz quartet. The medium is acrylic on to emulsion on plaster. Plus MDF cut-outs. Completed June 2007.
Chater School, Watford 01

Chater School, Watford

Chater School, Watford
(Acrylics, November 2016)
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8 metres long, acrylic on plaster. Yes they like rabbits!

Arts and Crafts Frieze
(8m long, 2016)
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