1. Tell Me About Your Space

Send a few details about your project, including the location, approximate wall size, photos, timeline, and any ideas you already have.

2. Let's Talk

Banks will follow up to discuss your vision, project requirements, schedule, and estimated cost.

3. Custom Design

Once the project moves forward, Banks creates a custom digital rendering of the mural. The design process is collaborative, allowing you to provide feedback before the artwork is finalized.

4. Painting

Once the design is approved, Banks brings the mural to life on site.

Every project is different. Final pricing depends on the size, design complexity, surface, accessibility, location, equipment, and travel requirements.

After learning more about your project, Banks can provide an estimate based on your specific wall and scope.

Some clients come with a detailed idea. Others simply have a wall they know could become something special.

Banks works collaboratively with each client to develop imagery around their story, location, business, community, environment, or goals and turn those ideas into a mural designed specifically for the space.

Banks Compton is an Alabama-based mural artist and Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) alumnus creating large-scale murals and public art throughout Alabama and across the United States.

His experience includes projects for businesses, corporations, cities, schools, libraries, entertainment venues, community organizations, and private clients, with work ranging from intimate interior murals to large-scale public and commercial installations.

Banks approaches every commission by listening to the client and developing artwork that combines their vision with his experience in storytelling, site-specific design, and large-scale painting.

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Mural costs vary depending on the size, design complexity, wall surface, location, accessibility, equipment, materials, travel, and preparation required. After reviewing the project details and photos of the space, Banks can provide an estimate based on the specific scope of work.

Banks generally accepts new mural commissions with a $3,000 project minimum. Projects involving metal surfaces or more extensive preparation may have a higher minimum depending on the site and scope.

Mural pricing is based on the overall scope of the project. Factors can include square footage, design complexity, surface condition, preparation, materials, lifts or scaffolding, travel, installation requirements, community participation, and protective coatings.

Installation time depends on the size and complexity of the mural. Smaller projects may take several days, while large or multi-wall installations can require several weeks. In general every project is two weeks or less of painting.

The overall project timeline also includes design development, client approval, material preparation, scheduling, and site coordination before painting begins.

For the best scheduling availability, contacting Banks several months before the desired installation date is recommended, particularly for large commercial, public, school, or exterior projects.

Projects with construction schedules, community participation, extensive design development, or specialized equipment may require additional planning time.

Yes. Banks is based in Foley, Alabama, and travels throughout Alabama, the Southeast, and across the United States for mural and public art projects.

Travel and lodging requirements are incorporated into the project scope when necessary.

This depends on the project. Banks can coordinate lifts, scaffolding, and other access equipment, or work with equipment provided by the client, contractor, or project site.

Access requirements are discussed before the project begins so equipment and associated costs can be included in the project plan.

Murals can be created on many interior and exterior surfaces. Banks has experience working with brick, masonry, concrete, drywall, corrugated metal, industrial structures, wood panels, and dimensional architectural surfaces.

Every surface is evaluated before painting to determine the appropriate cleaning, preparation, primer, paint system, and protective coating.

Yes. Banks creates murals on both interior and exterior surfaces, including metal, brick, masonry, concrete, drywall, and other architectural materials.

Exterior and specialty surfaces may require additional preparation, primers, coatings, or testing to help the artwork perform appropriately in its environment.

For original commissions, Banks develops the mural design specifically for the client, location, architecture, audience, and goals of the project.

The process can include research, conversations with the client and stakeholders, concept development, and a digital rendering for review before painting begins.

Banks can also work with existing artwork or established corporate creative direction when a project requires it.

A protective coating can be applied to exterior murals when appropriate for the paint system, surface, location, and environmental conditions.

Not every mural requires the same coating, so the appropriate finish is determined for each project rather than using one product for every surface.

Yes. Banks can incorporate community paint days, student participation, youth workshops, and collaborative painting into appropriate projects.

Banks develops and prepares the overall artwork, guides participants through designated portions of the painting process, and completes the detailed work necessary to maintain a professional finished mural.

Yes. Banks can collaborate with architects, interior designers, developers, general contractors, facilities teams, marketing departments, municipal staff, and other project professionals.

For murals incorporated into construction or renovation projects, coordination can include surfaces and coatings, installation schedules, equipment, site access, safety requirements, approved designs, and other trades working in the space.

The most helpful information includes the project location, photographs of the wall or space, approximate dimensions, wall material, desired timeline, project goals, and budget range when available.

It is also helpful to explain who will use the space, what you would like the mural to accomplish, and whether the project involves special requirements such as community participation, branding, lifts, construction schedules, or unusual surfaces.

Providing this information at the beginning makes it easier for Banks to recommend an appropriate approach and prepare an accurate estimate.