This 20 x 8 ft mural is situated on an exterior wall of the Theatre Royal public house, Edinburgh. For practicality it was painted on five sheets of plywood before installation, and is now protected by perspex. The subject theme was left to us by the client, though as the pub is next door to the Playhouse Theatre, the topic decided itself.

The stage set was borrowed from a well known fifteenth century Tuscan painting by an unknown artist. The figures and other details are original, although the dashing horserider was taken from Paulo Uccello's "The Rout of San Romano".

The two panels shown here are part of a series of nine (each 7 x 8 ft) that we designed and painted for a function suite located in one of Edinburgh's most historic areas, Leith. The client's main wish was that the panels reflected the history of the area and secondly, that they resembled painting on tiles. His inspiration had come from the fantastic Victorian tiled paintings in the city's Cafe Royal.

Research was therefore an integral and important part of this project. For example, golf was chosen as a subject because we discovered that the earliest documented golf club, Gentlemen Golfers of Leith, drew up the first set of rules for the game in 1744. Also shown here is King George IV landing at Leith in 1822.

Here are two examples of screens designed to be placed in front of disused fireplaces. Both were made in MDF and cut to fit exactly into the fireplace surrounds.

The ideas for both screens were inspired by motifs on fabrics that were in each room, for example the trompe l'oeil basket of cherries was suggested by the room's curtains which were covered in a repeating pattern of stylised fruits in baskets.