Jane Knapp Ltd. Trompe L'Oeil Painting

Jane Knapp's work involves her with refurbishment and redecoration projects for historic buildings, including large country houses, museums, churches and follies.

As well as being able to advise about colour and interior design, as a painter Jane Knapp's specialities are:

Painting murals for walls or ceilings, Wood-graining and marbling effects,
Designing and making oil cloths as flooring for museums and conservation projects

NON PRIVATE CLIENT LIST INCLUDES:
- English Heritage
- Longleate Estates
- Hoare's Bank, Fleet Street
- Paxton House Trust
- St. Botolph's Church, Aldersgate, London
- Derby Museum Service
- Mulberry

Ceiling mural of a sky.

Private Client
A large domed ceiling painted with a sunrise. There are many ways to paint a sky and for this interior, within a classical building, the clouds and sky are represented after the style of Claude Lorraine.

The faux sienna marble slips in the fireplace are also by Jane.

The Chapel Floor at Audley End , Essex.
Client English Heritage

Handmade and painted by Jane Knapp, this replica of an eighteenth century floorcloth is patterned with faux "Bremen" and limestone paving squares.
House inventories and an early watercolour record such a painted cloth for the first floor gothick chapel which could not support the wieght of a real stone floor.

Faux "oak panelling" detail

Hand painted by Jane Knapp, this trompe l'oeil panelling covers a 15 feet long wall that has first been prepared with lining paper.
Many different wood grain effects can be acheived by oil paint and glazes.

"Magnolia" Mural by Jane Knapp
Detail of a bedroom mural . The limited colour pallet gives a very restfull effect. The design is influenced by the Oriental hand painted wallpaper I saw on a visit to Belvoir Castle.
I think it would also work very well in a dining room or library, perhaps with a different background colour.

Beckford's Tower, marble paint effect
Marbled oilcloth covering in the tower, which stands on Landsdown, Bath.
A restoration project has rescued this wonderful building for many to enjoy and it is now open to the public.
The rich colours of the "Belvidere" are as they were in 1844 and copied from a watercolour recording the interior by Willes Maddox.
Oilcloth made and painted by Jane who is seen here varnishing the work.
More information from Beckford Tower Trust.
Telephone 01225 460705

Minoan wall painting.
Private Client
Mural for a pool house copied from the palace of Knossos on Crete.(c.1400 BC)
The turquoise colour looks beautiful with the swimming pool and the mural exudes the minoan culture's joie de vivre.

This detail of Griffins among stylized flowers is copied from frescos found in the throne room of the palace .The dolphins are from the Queen's bathroom.

Man at a window
Many windows were blocked up in Georgian England, including this one in Bath, to avoid the window tax.
The ghostly figure represents a man looking down from the top floor in period 18th century costume.
He wears a cap and night gown. I painted this in rather inclement weather from scaffolding for the amusement of a private client. .

"Dragged" paint effect.

Private Client
This pair of large doors have been dragged with an oil glaze and mouldings picked out with ochre.
This paint treatment compliments the georgian decoration of a first floor room in Great Pultney Street, Bath.
(Note Adam style frieze)

Longleat House "frottaged" walls detail
(artwork of ancestor by Lord Bath)

Client Longleat Estates

A paint effect for the new banqueting suite where hang many of Lord Bath's family portraits.Transparent smoke glaze on deep blue. Colours refined and mixed by Jane knapp and paint effect executed by Jane and her team.....to the distant roars of lions in the safari park.

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