About Lazure Painting

LAZURE PAINTING was introduced by Rudolf Steiner (1861-1925) as a decorative means by which we can create the effect of 'softening' architecture and so freeing it from its rigid and heavy quality.

The word 'lazure' simply means a glaze of colour. It comes from 'lasur' which originally meant a glaze of blue.

Lazure is a painting technique in which layers of translucent colour are brushed, in a lemniscate style, on to a white base. The colour then interplays with natural light as it reflects back from the white surface, creating subtle changes in shade and hue.

Lazure painting comprises the use of the finest materials available. The white base coats are casein natural paints. For the colour, earth and plant pigments are ground in a beeswax binder.

Lazure can be applied to flat painted walls and many types of textured surfaces.

Lazure offers an opportunity to create spaces that have an artistic and natural feel to them. The gradation, interplay and transition of colour are a part of this process. With a carefully chosen colour design and skilled application, lazure painted buildings have an aesthetic quality that is totally unique. Colour then sets the mood and supports social activity.

A dynamic alternative to opaque painted walls.

 

"We shape our buildings: thereafter, they shape us." (Winston Churchill)