Artist Kristjana S Williams has used the walls of her home as another canvas, letting a menagerie run riot
The artwork hanging on the walls of Kristjana S Williams’ house pales beside the walls themselves: there are giant murals featuring tropical birds, oversized leaves, green vistas, and ferns that snake up from floor height to the ceiling. Cocooning one stairwell is a kaleidoscopic wallpaper of thistles, zebras and deer against a striped background; a smaller staircase has an eye-popping geometric pattern, dotted with flowers. And her young children’s bedroom is wrapped in a wooded landscape of fantastical apelike creatures, reminiscent of Maurice Sendak’s Where The Wild Things Are. Framed cases of butterflies and mounted animal heads complete the bestial look.
It all sounds rather intense, but high ceilings, pale paintwork and the more traditional elements of this 17th-century stone building – terracotta tiled floors, original panelling – tone down the excess.
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