Signwriting & Window Painting

Traditionally hand-painted signage, gold leaf gilding & murals

The Personal Touch

You have a business that is offering something special. A bit extra.

You are holding onto what's human in a frenetic world of mass-produced solutions.

You stand for something.

You want to get the face of your business in line with what you're about, so that everyone can see it, know it & feel it.

You are ready for some communications that are personalised and meaningful.

Storefront window with the name 'Muttley Crüe' at the top, decorated with paw prints and a skull and crossbones. Inside the window, there is a large graphic of a dog’s face with a playful expression, and black and white paw prints around the window

Signage Services

  • Sign Painting

    We create a design that is inspired by your business & I hand paint it onto boards or directly onto the fascia around your shop.

  • Gilding

    Gold leaf, for a classic, enduring and luxury look.

  • Window Painting

    Liven up a space with window art and hand painted murals. Pair it up with some bespoke signage for extra impact.

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Looks Like…

  • Storefront window display of The Welsh Wool Shop, decorated with winter and Christmas themed white painted illustrations, including a castle, trees, a cow, and festive words like 'Nadolig Llawen!' The sides of the display feature signs with Welsh language text and sheep illustrations.

    Award-winning window painting (Welsh Wool Shop) of the local town at Christmas, with sheep playing in the snow.

  • A woman with curly blonde hair standing beside a black chalkboard sign outside a building with white walls, blue sky, and greenery in the background. The sign advertises a bistro called Bistro Bach with details about hours and contact information.

    Quick job on an existing board for pop-up dining solopreneur ‘Bistro Bach’ at a community pub.

  • Close-up of a butterfly painting, showing yellow and black wings with green background.

    Gold leaf lettering & motifs that will stand the test of time.

  • Storefront window with wheat design decal, unit number 7 on the wall to the right.

    Wheatear artisanal bakery, masking a view of the floor with this ‘whimsical wheat’ design.

  • Wooden sign in a jungle with the word "LABYRINTH" painted in blue letters on a yellow background.

    Bright signs aging harmoniously with nature at a family focused yurt & tipi glamping site in West Wales.

  • Three white sandwich boards outside a shop with stylized black text and a sheep illustration, advertising Welsh wool products and associated intricately with sheep imagery.

    Designs inspired by ‘Bimbo the Sheep’, the ‘flockstar’ of this small wool business in Wales.

  • Chalkboard sign listing pizza options and seasonal salads, with a rustic wooden background.

    Vibrant menus at a rustic, high-end wedding venue.

  • Colorful chalk drawing of a telescope view showing different types of celestial objects, surrounded by a quote, on a black surface.

    Quick board, capturing the principles and ethos of a forest school, chalked out during a session.

  • Two black painted wooden signs with colorful text, placed on dark mulch ground. The top sign reads 'READGWRDD' in blue and white, and the bottom sign reads 'CREATIVITY' in orange and white.

    Sign-making workshop.

How Does It Work?

Hannah’s dog grooming business was doing so well that she’d leased out bigger premises in a more central part of town.

She wanted me to help her redesign her logo and give the new shop a spruce up before it’s official opening day. Here’s what happened…

Client
Muttley Crue Dog Groomer’s

Year
April 2025

The Starting Point

The existing logo artwork & branding

Business card for Mütley Crü Dog Groomers with a purple background, stylized text, and a cartoon dog with a black eye patch and skeletal bones.

The Brief

Hannah wanted the new logo to look more like her own dog - a Welsh rare breed terrier called ‘Danzig’. She gave me a bunch of photos as a reference, like this one.

Photo of a black and white fluffy terrier dog with a beard, standing on rocks outdoors with trees and a blue sky in the background.

Logo Development

I sent rough sketches to Hannah, she gave me feedback and we got to the final vector logo design with one round of revisions.

Sketches of various dog faces in different expressions and styles, some are simple line drawings and others are more detailed, with a few colored in pink.
Sketch of a dog with two side profiles, a top profile, and a side profile of a dog with a long body, small legs, and a curled tail.
A line art drawing a dog in side profile, with a jaunty expression
Front view of a blue building with a pet grooming shop named 'Muttley Crüe Dog Groomers.' The shop has large front windows with holiday-themed decorations, including a neon sign of a dog with a rainbow collar, paisley snowflakes, and a reindeer silhouette. The shop's sign has a bone icon between the words.

Sign Painting Process

  1. With measurements of the fascia above her shop, I create to-scale vector design & send to Hannah for sign off

Shadow of the word 'MUTTLEY' cast on a wall with a person holding a rolled-up tracing paper on the right.
Projection of a sign for dog groomers with a picture of two crossed bones.

3. Tracing, stenciling, chalking…

Shadow of a person's face and hand making a peace sign, cast onto projection with letters "MUTT"

3. Focusing, breathing and painting it on…

Tracing paper with the words "MÜTTLEY CRÜE" above storefront windows, with some graffiti-style drawings of bones and a crossbones symbol on a white background.

4. Finish with a large Danzig painted onto the window, and some paw prints to tie it all together

Storefront of MütTLEy CRÜE with paw print decorations on the glass, featuring a large black and white dog illustration on the door, and a white ceramic dog statue on the right side inside the store display.

Gold Leaf Gilding

Christine - a herbalist with over 20 years experience - was opening a new store in town.

She’d seen my signwork locally and wanted me to help her create something that was enduring and classic, harking back to the apothecaries of old.

I suggested we go for gilding (the gold leaf is weatherproof and will outlast the wood it’s painted on) and romanesque lettering.

Client
Herbal Medicine Clinic

Year
February 2024

Design

Creating the lettering

Sketches of letter designs, including the words 'MEDICINE' with some letters colored in purple, on a desk surrounded by art supplies and a cutting mat.
A crafting workspace with a green cutting mat, an open bottle of pink ink and a brush, with a pencil drawing of the letter 'C' in large romaneque font on white paper.
Hand-drawn letters on paper spell out "HERBAL MEDICINE CLINIC" on a green cutting mat.

Prepare

Practising with the fascia paint, gold leaf & glue.

A green wooden sign with gold-coloured glue, painted in the shape of letters 'H I', resting on a cutting mat with art supplies around, including paints, brushes, and sketches.

Gilding

Waiting for the right weather conditions and then chalking up the design (stencil), hand painting on the glue & waiting for the right drying time to apply the gold leaf.

A woman with curly blonde hair, glasses, and yellow tape around her wrist is pressing onto a stencil, printed paper pinned to the wooden board above a shop. The sign reads 'HERBAL' in large letters, with other letters partially visible.
A green wooden surface with two pieces of masking tape and white chalk marks and faint lettering of 'H' 'E'
Green storefront with a 'MEDICINE' stencil sign taped on the window and brush-strokes painted above it.
Storefront sign with the words 'Herbal Medicine' on a green background with decorative accents.

Finishing Touches

A follow up visit to touch up any patches where the gold leaf didn’t take, and repainting any damaged areas on the backing wood.

And - voila!

Green-framed herbal medicine clinic storefront with a door and two large windows, signs, and string lights.

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Tell me all about your business & your window / sign / mural painting needs.

Two signs placed on dark soil. The larger sign reads 'CREADIGRWYDD' (Welsh word for 'Creativity') with a stylized, glowing blue font. The smaller sign beneath it reads 'CREATIVITY' with a glowing orange and white font.
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