
Imagine this fireplace, the bricks, the gold frame and landscape painting
within it, all done in off-white and light pink. This is how it was
when I arrived at this lovely large home in Fitchburg, Massachusetts.
The owner removed the paint from the bricks himself and I begged him
to let me marbleize the surrounding woodwork. His wife chose several
landscape photos and paintings from the internet and I made a very creative
blend of her favorite images. I then gold-leafed the frame around the
painting and, last but not least, put several coats of acrylic varnish
over the marbleized woodwork.
That is a wall mural above the fireplace, there was a moulding on the
wall.