Not a real hallway. One created by adding an extra depth and length with trickery of the eye - or if you like to use the traditional description, trompe l'oeil. It takes consumate skill and technique to effect, and not every artist can do it. This is the work of Colin Failes who has specialised in this area for the last 20 years.

A heightened form of illusionism, the art of trompe l'oeil flourished from the Renaissance onward. The discovery of perspective in fifteenth-century Italy and advancements in the science of optics in the seventeenth-century Netherlands enabled artists to render objects and spaces with eye-fooling exactitude. Both witty and serious, trompe l'oeil is a game artists play with spectators to raise questions about the nature of art and perception.