The Best Decorative Painting in the Bay Area

This week the results of the local competition "The bAy List" featuring the best of the San Francisco Bay Area were announced at sfgate.com

Our own Adrian Card won First Place, with 33 glowing reviews of his work posted by clients and fans of his work.
Second Place in this competition was awarded to fellow guild member, muralist Lynne Rutter.

You can see even more of Adrian's work on his newly redesigned website at adriancard.com.

Children's Mural at Burlingame Public Library

Muralist Lynne Rutter's recently completed major commission for the Burlingame Public Library.

The Burlingame Library is a charming Spanish Revival style building, designed by architect E. L. Norberg and completed in 1931.
The storybook mural was commissioned by the Burlingame Library Foundation to commemorate the centennial celebration of the Library. The Children's Wing is a large space with soaring, beamed ceilings, textured plaster walls, and a lot of odd angles. This presented a challenge as there is no one focal point to the room, nor is there an uninterrupted space where one might normally site a mural.

Design consultant and guild member Michelle Nelson brought Lynne Rutter into the project to create a site-specific work that would incorporated the room's architecture. In Rutter's design, the grates, arches, and doors were integrated into the painting, so that the architecture became part of the composition of the mural.

Faraway Castles, approx. 9 feet wide
"The room becomes a story; its walls the pages of a favorite book."

The Burlingame Library is located at 480 Primrose, Burlingame. It's a wonderful building well-supported and well-used by its community, and a well worth a visit from you.

above: The north wall mural with life size-figures was painted on canvas and finished after installation on site. photos by Lynne Rutter.

2007 San Francisco Decorator Showcase

April, 2007

Lynne Rutter designed a Vintage Laundry Room for the 2007 San Francisco Decorator Showcase, open April 28 - May 28 at 2901 Broadway Street a spectacular 1927 neoclassical villa designed by architect Henry Clay Smith, in original period condition.

Several guild members contributed to the production of this room.

above photo by David Papas Photographer