Freely designed Murals
Delightfully individual, these make the most of each pupil’s creative talents whatever their age or abilities. Small jewels of tile can be dotted around the school or organised into a mural.
Environmental themes such as mini-beasts, ocean commotion and flower gardens all work very well as a starting point.
Examples by Nursery, Infant, Junior and special needs children.
TILED MURALS FOR SCHOOLS & PUBLIC SPACES
Permanent artwork indoors and outside.
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Karen Elkins writes - I first began making tiled murals for schools in 2001, and have also worked with Landscape Architects, Museums, Hospitals and Heritage organisations. If you are looking for a tiled mural, there are several options, with different lengths of times involved.
This page is an introduction to some of the different types of mural I have worked on over the last 8 years. If you would like a mural for a school you might wish the children to contribute to the overall design of the panel, as well as the creation of the tiles for the mural.
If you are looking to create a large, colourful area of public artwork as a part of an architectural scheme or building design, you might want to consider commissioning us to create a mural for you. We have a workshop dedicated to clay tile production, with tile drying racks and 3 kilns.
Artist made mural for Newark Hospital
Hand made tiles which I impressed with flowers and leaves, painted with coloured under-glazes. I designed this to be positioned low down on the wall at the entrance to the women’s centre, so that visiting children could feel the impressions of the flowers as they walked in.
The result is a light, gentle mural which raises the spirits.
Hospital Mural brightens entrance to the Women's Centre
Hand painted tiles impressed with flowers into the wet clay tile
Planned murals  - made by school pupils.
Formally designed murals are planned, drawn and designed so that each tile has a place within the mural from the start, as well as a place within the colour scheme. Because of the need to divide the mural up into parts that each child can work on, then bring their tile back to the whole again, these murals take time to plan and design and the pupils can help take part in that process. The result is an outstanding, permanent artwork for the school.
Tiles painted with brush on glaze in architectural colours and textures
Tiles depicting National Trust knot gardens and King Charles 1st
Tiles showing Coal mining, Roundheads and Cavaliers
Redmile Church
made by year 5 pupils
Flower tiles painted with underglaze colours
William Morris inspired tiled mural using brush on glazes
Victorian style mural
Made using fired tiles and brush on glazes.
By year 5 pupils
Clay feet tiles made by infant school pupils swim in a border of year one tiles
Islamic tile designs inspired these year 7 pupils tiles
Drawn design in wet clay tile, painted with brush on glazes
Unique permanent tile records the drawing of each child
Collective Mural - individually designed
Each pupil designs their own tiles and they are brought together as a collective mural, which is worked on by every one.
The tiled fountain for Luton museum (above) was created by year 7 pupils who designed pairs of tiles and decided how they were to be laid out on the 4 sides of the fountain after they were finished.
Joyful design drawn into wet clay tile
Traditional slip and honey glazed mini beast tile
Drawn into the clay and painted with wet clay slip in school
Interpretation of traditional Islamic tiles from the British Museum
Pupils visited the Islamic Tile collection at the British Museum to get inspiration.