We’re created four more tile murals for the residence in Hawaii that we blogged about in December.

These four murals will adorn the walls outside of guest rooms on the property.  The mural designs reflect the flora of the area and are glazed in adobe, turquoise, persimmon and jade.

Handmade, ceramic wall tiles

Handmade, ceramic wall tiles, glazed in jade

Handmade, ceramic wall tiles

Handmade, ceramic wall tiles, glazed in turquoise

Natalie’s recent mural is now hanging on a rock wall at a residence in Hawaii. Natalie and Nick flew down to install the piece and to take a much-needed vacation.

Ceramic Wall Tiles installed in Hawaii

We think it would also make a beautiful backsplash!

Botanical abstract, 12" tiles

This Tree of Life, is beautifully mounted on a painted wall. We love the look of the darker paint behind the mural.

Tree of Life

We sketched the designs and chose colors for each of the four guest suites (see below)

handmade, ceramic wall art tile by Natalie Blake Studios

Here are three of the four murals, carved and drying before bisque-firing.

Here is one of the finished murals, glazed in fern:

Mural glazed in fern

handmade, ceramic wall art tile by Natalie Blake Studios

This glaze is amethyst.

handmade, ceramic wall art tile by Natalie Blake Studios

This glaze is yellow

The interior designer then commissioned name plaques to designate each guest suite.

Here’s the result:

Handmade, ceramic, name plaques by Natalie Blake Studios

Here are some installation shots of the murals:

ceramic wall art tile

custom ceramic wall art tile glazed in amethyst

custom ceramic wall art tile glazed in blue

custom ceramic wall art tile glazed in fern

Here’s what the happy client had to say: “I can’t thank you enough for your help in making my bathroom one-of-a-kind!”

Shower tiles by Natalie Blake Studios

Our latest work….each of these 12″ tiles was sprayed with two colors.  The top-left tile was sprayed with jade and honey, as the closeup below shows.

Click on each image to enlarge.

abstract in multi-color

Single tile in jade and honey

Here’s what Natalie had to say about the piece:

“This piece was inspired by Lake Geneva, which can be seen from the dining room and kitchen windows of this home in Wisconson.  The day I went to look at the walls I had been talking about with my client, the sun was warm and inviting, the water and sky blue with a lovely breeze. We sat out on the veranda and had breakfast and talked about wall art and the last few years of my adventures into wall sculpture and ceramic art tile. My client was inspired by the undulation in tile that gives the murals such life and motion. She liked the idea of her wall coming alive with a three dimensional hand carved rendition of her perfect view. We chose warm colors that came from the outdoors as well as colors in the wood, carpets, furnishings of her home.

The colors worked beautifully in the room! She had the perfect lighting already installed in the ceilings, that “scraped” the piece from top down to accentuate the undulation and texture in the handmade, handcarved, tiles.   Success!”

Lake Geneva, Handmade, custom, ceramic wall art tile by Natalie Blake Studios

Lake Geneva, WI installation

handmade, ceramic wall art tile by Natalie Blake Studios