Jun. 09, 2025
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In a bathroom, a blackbird perches on a marble balustrade in front of a pale blue sky streaked with skeins of cloud. A lattice of tumbling willow makes for a romantic bower of an entrance hall, while stylised oak leaves scattered across a table are given a folk feel by a border of spots and stripes. Monochromatic fish scales cover a cupboard, and a pedestrian panel is disguised behind a distinctive Elizabethan gargoyle – which, contrary to expectation, is as contemporary as they come, as is every other painterly instance mentioned above.
Decorative painting is back, its increasing popularity part of the subtle interiors shift that has seen so many of us veer towards both a more embellished, and a more considered approach, one that values craft, time and technique over the convenience of mass-production. The last two years especially have resulted in “a desire to make the absolute most of your space, to make it really yours,” points out painter Queenie Ingrams.
The practice has been around since time began; another painter, Tess Newall, mentions the paintings on the walls of the Spanish caves of La Pasiega, which are 64,000 years old. “Even early human man had the idea that living somewhere adorned and decorated is just better,” Tess says. But while more recent previous periods of popularity, from the High Italian Renaissance to Roger Fry’s early 20th-century Omega Workshop, have seen one particular style triumph, this time there’s no single approach, just whatever works for today’s manner of living. So fewer beds painted with cautionary Old Testament tales – “Though I reckon they’re due a revival in type, if not subject matter,” says Melissa White. “They last longer than upholstered headboards” – and more of almost everything else. Here are the names to know.
When we spoke, Magda was overseeing the installation of scaffolding in a bathroom, which she needs if she is to transform an ordinary flat ceiling into one that could be mistaken for French 19th-century, complete with coffering and mouldings. She has already converted the existing woodwork into palisander, “a rare and exotic type of rose wood”, and restyled plaster walls as expanses of red tortoiseshell.
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Once upon a time, she points out, everybody did this. “Look at Versailles, or the Villa Borghese. Marble and precious woods were only used in the most important rooms in the house, other rooms were decorated by artists.” She mentions the stylistic difference between countries: “Italian artists were looser with the brushes, more impressionistic, whereas in France and England the emphasis was on exact imitation.”
Polish-born, Magda trained at the Van der Kelen Institute of Decorative Painting in Brussels and can faithfully simulate over 80 different types of wood, along with marble and semi-precious stones such as malachite or amethyst. In fact, she confirms, she could recreate the famous – lost – Amber Room (stolen from St. Petersburg by the Nazis during WWII, it hasn’t been seen since.) “As an artist, my aim is to make something even better than nature herself – and of course, unlike nature, I can tweak the colours.” You can find her on Instagram.
Melissa trained in Elizabethan wall painting, explaining “we tend to think of the Tudor home as all whitewashed walls and dark beams, but in fact walls and ceilings were highly decorated with all manner of bold and vivid pattern; beasts, grotesques, trellises, florals – it was the peak of our English Renaissance at the vernacular level.” In fact, evidence suggests that fashion at the time was more in favour of decoration than not, at least until the mid-17th century, when the paintings almost entirely disappeared, “frowned upon by Puritans as ‘sins of the flesh’.”
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While at the height of their popularity, Elizabethan wall paintings complied to a composition that typically consisted of a frieze running across the top, a main panel called the fill, and a dado that ran across the bottom, Melissa usually works “to a big scale, floor to ceiling scenic – though I do think borders are about to have a moment.” (We agree.) Rather than working directly onto walls, Melissa tries to steer clients towards bespoke wallpaper. “I create the design by hand, but I can then play with scale, we can adjust colours and tones by minute amounts; essentially, there’s greater scope for a client to get exactly what they want.” If you want something off-the-shelf rather than commissioned, Melissa has collaborated on several exquisite wallpapers and fabrics, featuring Elizabethan mythical creatures, and pomegranate-laden branches, with Firmdale Hotels, Lewis & Wood and Zoffany.
Melissa also paints furniture, working with the Fleet Gallery in St. Leonard’s-on-Sea. She’s currently big on black and white geometric, which “refers to the Elizabethan period at the end of the 16th century when it was trying to keep up with the Italian Renaissance.” Based in Hastings, Melissa can be contacted via her website.
Queenie, who like Magda studied at the Van der Kelen Institute of Decorative Painting, specialises in a different sort of trompe l’oeil, weaving wisteria across bedrooms, disguising ceilings as endless skies, and turning nurseries into woodland glades with fawns peeking out from behind skilfully applied (and very convincing) foliage.
The earliest known instance of this trompe l’oeil is when, in Ancient Greece, a contest reportedly took part between two prominent artists, Zeuxis and Parrhasius. One painted grapes with such skill that birds flew down to peck at them, the other an illusionistic curtain so convincing that even his fellow painted tried to draw it to one side. During the Italian Renaissance the technique moved to an even grander scale; think of Andrea Mantegna’s Oculus Ceiling for the Palazzo Ducale in Mantua, which employs perspective to conjure up the illusion of infinite space.
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Happily, you don’t need a palace now; “I’ve even turned a tiny laundry room into a crisp spring morning in England,” recounts Queenie, who relishes “bringing the outside in, especially living in the city. It can be details from the garden, or a favourite place. My dad is a landscape painter, and when I was little he did a mural in my bedroom, and I remember feeling that I was actually in a jungle.” Queenie also ages furniture, and loves incorporating architectural elements, whether trellises or marble arches, into her naturalistic scenes. So if you long for a bit of Brideshead romanticism, such as the fictional mural that Charles Ryder painted – which was inspired by Rex Whistler’s actual mural in the dining room at Plas Newydd in Wales – Queenie is your go-to (you can message her on Instagram, where she goes by Queenie Paints).
Tess read Archeology at Oxford and then worked in set design (for ’s Vita & Virginia, she masterminded the recreation of Charleston in a dilapidated farmhouse in Ireland) before segueing into decorative painting, taking inspiration from “antique fabrics, Bloomsbury and the Omega Workshop, Jean Cocteau, Gustavian painted furniture, the Ballet Russes, Eastern European folk art – literally, all over.” (Which seems a good moment to draw your attention to the work of the late Ukranian folk painter, Maria Prymachenko. A large collection of her work was held at a museum in Ivankiv, which was reportedly set on fire earlier this week. It is not yet known how much of the collection, if any, has survived.)
Living close to Charleston, Tess explains her draw to Vanessa Bell, Duncan Grant and co. as being less to do with their open approach to marriage, and more to do with “their attitude. They weren’t shy or nervous in their way of being, and when it came to painting they went for it, dispelling the idea that art has to live on canvas or in a frame.”
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Tess paints both murals and furniture, “I particularly love painting old furniture which people have either bought especially for me to paint, or it’s something that they’ve fallen out of love with and want to see it revived. You get a lovely texture with the grain of the wood.” She explains that she lets herself be guided by the piece, “and then I see where a border might work. Usually I’m given quite an open brief, and I’ll reply with a mood board with ideas. I work collaboratively with my clients.” She’s currently working on a collaboration with her husband, Alfred Newall, who designs furniture – potentially making them a one-stop decorative shop; more of her projects can be discovered on her website.
Amy worked as an interior designer for Sibyl Colefax & John Folwer, before a box-painting lesson with Melissa White at Charleston set her on a new career. “I never expected this to happen!” she remarks, proving just how valuable even a very short course can be. “But I’ve always loved antique textiles and block printing. I love the repetition of shapes, and how they change an interior. An individual painted chair in a room can look so lovely.”
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She takes inspiration from folk art and – also being Sussex-based – Charleston, and while she can administer magic to mirrors, cupboards, tables and more, she has recently started concentrating more on doll’s houses, and doll’s house furniture, unconsciously tapping into a zeitgeisty moment (even I am working on one with my daughter.) “They capture a moment in history,” she points out (who hasn’t gone to Kensington Palace, just to see Queen Victoria’s?) “And they have the potential to become heirlooms. But the furniture I paint is not realistic, it’s covered in pattern,” she continues; we can confirm that it’s very lovely. Amy’s website is here.
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