Home Interior Design Themes » pub decor http://homeinteriordesignthemes.com Professional tips, ideas and inspiration for decorating your home Sat, 21 Apr 2012 07:24:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Christmas Wall Mural of the Nativity Delights the Patrons of an English Inn http://homeinteriordesignthemes.com/2009/12/christmas-wall-mural-of-the-nativity-delights-the-customers-of-an-english-inn/ http://homeinteriordesignthemes.com/2009/12/christmas-wall-mural-of-the-nativity-delights-the-customers-of-an-english-inn/#comments Thu, 24 Dec 2009 18:04:15 +0000 interior designer http://homeinteriordesignthemes.com/?p=2549 The walls of the Blisland Inn are usually adorned with old fashioned barometers, ale adverts and black and white pictures of the village football (soccer) team. However, when patrons entered into their local pub a few days ago they were greeted with an altogether different scene. A traditional nativity scene has been ingrained onto one of the pub walls in the form of a life-like wall mural showing the well known and much loved visual of the birth of Jesus in a manger. The nativity wall mural is the creation of local artist Janet Shearer.

It’s not surprising this pub nativity wall mural is so good. Janet Shearer may be local to Cornwall, a county in the south west of England but she is well known worldwide for her artistic works in films, music albums and even in airports. She designed a backcloth for the rock band Pink Floyd’s The Wall album as well as creating murals for London Heathrow airport and the film Aliens.

The Blisland Inn nativity wall mural is a realistic interpretation of the 2,000 year old story of the birth of Christ. The baby Jesus is cradled lovingly in Mary’s arms whilst Joseph looks on beside her. Three wise men and a shepard also stand around the baby and bring gifts of homage. What has made the wall mural more personal and indeed remarkable is the fact that some of the locals faces have been used in the tableaux. For example, the landlord is Joseph whilst the chief barmaid is Mary. The three wise men and the shepherd are some of the pub’s most regular customers. At the bottom is a Jack Russell which is owned by Janet Shearer herself; a little bit of artistic licence.

The nativity scene in the Cornish pub was made using the trompe d’oeil technique which gives a wall mural a 3-D effect and can look extremely life-like. So much so that one local to the pub, before even sipping his pint of beer, said: “I have been coming here for 40 years and I never realized that door was there before.”

It took Janet three weeks to complete the Nativity wall mural scene in the pub. The pub landlord Gary Marshall is pleased with the Christmas mural and says: “I was delighted to let Janet turn this blank wall into such an incredible scene. It was something different and has turned out to be absolutely brilliant. My customers absolutely love it. It has made our Christmas.”

You can see larger images of this mural here: Extraordinarily realistic Nativity mural.

Merry Christmas to all my readers and visitors to Home Interior Design Themes.

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