ABOUT

RENOWN MURAL ARTIST

MICHAEL COOPER OF MURALS & MORE

Michael Cooper is well into his third decade of painting large-scale custom wall murals. He also provides decorative finishes, Venetian Plasters, Trompe L’oeil, and hand-painted large-scale graphics and signage. Mike started Murals & More LLC in 1990 with his wife and business partner, Mickie, and since then he has designed and painted everything from small interior residential projects to enormous hotel interiors, massive exterior highway painting projects and fabulous Public Art installations. Also an accomplished decorative painter, Mike has transformed many surfaces into amazing faux brick, intricate marble and classic Italian Plaster. He is internationally renowned for his attention to detail and his ability to create realistic and whimsical trompe l’oeil murals. People have simply been amazed at discovering what they thought was a series of wrought iron balconies or a clumsily placed ladder was actually a flat painted surface.

With the encouragement of his wife, Cooper founded Murals & More LLC after painting murals as a hobby for nearly his entire life. His first association with a mural was actually in his hometown of Memphis, in the first grade, (too many years ago!) where his winning drawings were incorporated into a large tile mural, which still exists today. Even though his specialty is custom, large-scale wall murals and decorative finishes, Michael has also provided his clients with painted furniture, ceiling murals, floor cloths, backdrops, canvas murals and many other specialty items.
CONTACT MICHAEL

WHAT’S MIKE BEEN DOING LATELY?

His most recent commercial projects include a 30’ x 120’ trompe l’oeil floral wall for a newly-built residential subdivision, a 35’ x 140’ tribute to the history of Pontotoc, Mississippi; a 200’ wall for an invitation-only mural festival in Illinois, and a 60’ Welcome Postcard in beautiful Franklin, TN., his home for the last 3 decades. He and his mural artist crew just completed a 10’ x 22’ Trompe L’oeil mural for a Spring Hill bank, featuring photo-realistic “Polaroids” of over a dozen of the bank’s locations; a 30’ x 60’ hometown tribute to Charlie Daniels, in Mt. Juliet, TN.; a massive 200’ graphic for Guy Fieri in Pigeon Forge, TN.; and “ghost wall” murals on two dilapidated barns in College Grove, TN. (And that’s not even mentioning his residential projects!)

In order to share his over 30 years of experience as a professional mural artist, Michael (and Mickie!) has also been teaching classes in the art and business of mural painting in their large Franklin studio, as well as mural painting seminars throughout the country. He has authored an instructional DVD on “How to Paint Murals”, and he has his own line of custom mural brushes (the Michael Cooper Signature Series) - check out the link on this website!

He is a member of the Community Relations Board for the Frist Art Museum, a member of the Franklin Public Arts Commission, a member of the Engagement Committee for the Williamson County Chamber of Commerce, an avid racquetball player, a beginning Pickleball enthusiast, and, in his spare time (really?!), Mike plays a decent 12 string guitar and a mean djembe. All with a new knee!

…AND MOST IMPORTANTLY…
…if it weren’t for his amazing wife, Mickie, he wouldn’t be here at all!

Share by: