Home hand-painted by British artist goes on the market as art piece - video Dailymotion

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British contemporary artist, Emily Powell, who spent the past decade hand-painting the inside of her Devon home, is to put the property on the market for £2 million.From floor to ceiling, each room has been painted to reflect an emotion, with figures, landscapes and objects from her life and travels.The house acts as a capsule for the latest stage of her art career, before her next project.

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00:00I'm just going to put Scotland here. Yeah. It's like, oh, but that has to work.

00:05You're completely wrapped in a painting, and it's a journey through different parts of my life,

00:13and each room, the colours are catered to looking after your emotions. So if you're in the kitchen,

00:21it's light and bright, and it's got lots of warm colours, and collected plates painted on the walls

00:28from different places we've been, and then we're in the playroom right now, which is to encourage play

00:36from my daughter. It took us so long to be able to buy our first house, which is completely bought

00:44with painting money from my paintings from the last 10 years, and when we got here, we'd been in rented

00:50accommodation for so long that I felt like this was such a special moment. I've finally bought

00:58a house, and we can do whatever we want with it, and I thought, I'll be really fancy. I'll have

01:03really beautiful carpet. We'll have dinner parties. We'll have polished ornaments, and that didn't

01:10happen at all. Maybe for the first three days, it was neat, and then I just started painting a little

01:17bit here and a little bit there. You can paint pretty much anything. I've painted the tiles,

01:23the stoneware, the ceramics. Paint's really hardy these days, and you can do so much with it.

Home hand-painted by British artist goes on the market as art piece

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