About

Founded in
the field.

Jhonattan Arango — Founder, Anemos Art Preservation
Jhonattan Arango Founder

It started with an observation.

Jhonattan Arango has spent over a decade painting large-scale murals in the wild — studying them just as much as creating them. His work has been commissioned by municipalities, public art organizations, and brand-conscious clients across the country. He has served as a grant panelist for the Houston Arts Alliance and exhibited at Art Basel Miami. In 2024, a 50'×12' mural sculpture they created entered the City of Dallas Permanent Public Art Collection — a program requiring a projected lifespan of 20 years or more.

That credential came from watching surfaces lose density. Color flatten. Contrast slowly disappear. Gradually, always predictably. Not in his nature to accept that, he started asking whether it had to happen that way.

The first response was inside the work itself — modifying paint with polymers, running the gamut of available topcoats, building layers designed to hold. Then it expanded into full protective systems, thinking about what it actually takes to keep them. Anemos is where that thinking landed.

Jhon served as a Hospital Corpsman in the U.S. Navy, then studied graphic design before finding his way to large-scale public murals.

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10+
Years of active field research
studying how murals degrade
40+
Large-scale public murals
painted, tested, and observed
18
Cities across climates, substrates,
and environmental conditions

Developed on real walls, in real conditions.

The Anemos system grew from direct observation — wall by wall, climate by climate. Every variable that affects a mural's lifespan has been part of the research: substrate, existing coatings, humidity, UV exposure, and what's been done to the wall since it was finished.

We work in partnership with an established professional coatings manufacturer whose products are designed specifically for fine art mural preservation.

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Assessment
Every engagement begins with reading the wall — surface condition, adhesion, coatings, substrate, environment. The history of the wall matters as much as what's on it.
Treatment scope
We treat murals that can be stabilized and protected. Works that require reconstruction or repainting are referred to conservation partners.
Artist relationship
The original artist is notified before any treatment begins — by the client, with language and a documentation framework we provide. Every treatment is designed to preserve the original work exactly as it was painted.
Conservation partners
For murals beyond our scope, we refer. The work stays original — that's the whole point.

Eighteen cities. Every climate. Real conditions.

From the Florida Keys to Montana — coastal humidity, desert heat, northern winters. The methodology has been shaped by the full range of environments that outdoor murals actually live in.

Your murals have been waiting for this conversation.

It starts with a call. We take it from there.

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