Welcome to our studio,
where creativity happens on a grand scale.
Pretorius Studio works collaboratively with interior design and architectural teams to deliver transformative artwork and finishes. Whether we’re working from your design inspiration or ours, we create all murals and artwork custom and by hand in our studio. Onsite specialty finishes are developed in the studio and sampled for designer and client approval. We invite you to visit our painting studio and participate in the creative process as your project comes to life.
Our creative process
We collaborate with you to bring your project goals to life with breathtaking results.
From initial sketches, maquettes and other mockups through final artwork, we work by hand. This offers total creative flexibility over every inch of your space. The result is bespoke environmental art on a grand scale for your unique project.
Our artistic team’s extensive education, experience and inventiveness give us versatility and skill in handling large, complex projects.
The best decorative painting solutions require artistic skill, and also smart planning. We consider your interior’s project goals and plan how to best stage our work to meet them. This includes taking into account project complexities or challenges that need to be addressed along the way. Our highly experienced fine art painters and finishers have worked together for many years, enabling us to take projects from ideas to execution and installation as one seamless, in-house team.
With the right tools in skilled hands, we make magic happen.
Christiaan Pretorius
Christiaan Pretorius brings a broad knowledge of historical styles of decoration, fine art and architecture to his work. His education in his native South Africa developed his keen draftsmanship and concise graceful composition. His career as a fine artist and stage designer brought him to the U.S. in 1990, when he began working in the decorative arts. He enjoys the lively interaction between traditional craftsmanship and a contemporary context, seeing painted decoration through the lens of current trends in art and interior design.
Christiaan’s wide-ranging artistic vocabulary is a valuable resource for designers and architects looking to enhance and enrich their projects with meticulously crafted murals and applied finishes.
Jill Daly
Jill Daly has a passionate flair for color and a nuanced understanding of the context and impact of decorative finishes. Her acute eye for detail and dedication to craftsmanship at the highest level make her a trusted ally of the designer or architect. A native of the Midwest, Jill worked in theatre before establishing her career as a decorative artist. She has a wide spectrum of artistic and cultural interests, which inform and enliven her work. Her attentive rapport with clients makes the process of developing painted finishes accessible and enjoyable. Jill brings both realism and a keen aesthetic sensibility to the most refined design projects.
“Because we create every project by hand in our studio, our clients can visit mid-project and are often awed to see their artwork in progress.”