Doing murals and art for restaurants, cafes, hotels, and other types of hospitality projects is the bulk of my work. I work with the client and the designers to create both signature pieces that encapsulate the brand or smaller artistic details that enhance it. I strive for a fresh approach to each new venue. Some of the technique shown here is old-school painting, some digital, and some a mix of both.
A digital painting for a mural project north of Seattle, the image depicts an Edo era street scene in Japan with the addition of several salarymen after their work week. This is a detail of a wider composition. The mural was printed on vinyl and installed on site.
Painted line art on walls of Microsoft Campus food service location. 5/16
Detail of a digital mural for a pan-Asian cafe in a Seattle tech firm office. 6/19
A digital mural for a new hot yoga studio, done in conjunction with 3|r|K srchitects. location: Mountlake Terrace, Washington
A digital print applied to glass panels for an Asian fusion restaurant in the Microsoft Commons complex at their main campus. Location: Redmond, Washington
A mural for Starbucks with brushed sketch style and constrained palette. Hand painted on canvas to scale. Reproduced enlargements were used around the world in both new stores and remodeled locations. Shown here - installation in Starbucks inner reception lobby at their Sodo headquarters in Seattle, Washington.
A modern Mexican restaurant showing the textured sgraffito wall drawings and hand-painted tables that distinguish the venue. Location: Alki Point, Seattle, Washington
An acrylic and texture mural painted on site directly to sealed strand board. Location: Tacoma, Washington
A collage mural using both traditional and digital media for Starbucks Coffee in 2008. Used primarily as a panelized mural as various scales throughout the world in their cafes.
Dimensional wall sculptures depicting single skuls on a body of water, for a restaurant adjacent to Green Lake Park. Made of found and reclaimed wood scraps, mounted to cedar planks. This has since been located to another venue. Location: Seattle, Washington
Double sided privacy panels for Tanakasan, in Seattle across the street from the Amazon Spheres. Rolling vertical grain fir panels, framed with hot rolled steel, each with an underwater vignette done in a watery Sumi-e style. 4’ x 8’ each.
A modern Mexican restaurant with hand painted mural above banquette seating. Includes use of plaster texture and metal leaf.. Location: Kirkland, Seattle, Washington. * This work, completed in the early ‘00’s, has since been remodeled into oblivion.
A detail of a mural for Starbucks Coffee, used throughout the world as a large digital-format digital mural. Painted in the studio on canvas at reduced scale.
A hand-painted mural on canvas, 45 feet long, for a restaurant in Tacoma, Washington with a Mexican/NYC theme. The mural subject matter was the Dia de los Muertos tradition in Mexico. Part of the composition shown in the section shown here is based on a piece of Diego Rivera. This establishment is now gone and the location of the mural is unknown.
Snapshot of north side of dining room in a pan-Asian cafe in a Seattle tech firm office with mural section shown on back wall. 6/19
A wall mural on three wall of a small restaurant at the Mayflower Park Hotel. Painted directly on the wall using acrylic and plaster texture, it draws on designs of William Morris and North African Islamic tiles. Location: Seattle, Washington