While dodging the rain over the past 6 months I've been restoring BLUE PLAQUES and creating new SIGN PAINTINGS around the town of Garstang!
Join myself & Heritage Officer Alex Holt for a tour of this history trail on 6th May at 2pm.
BOOK your ticket via the link/.../garstangwalkingf.../2148985
See newly commissioned sign paintings I produced for the town in 'Thomas's Weind'. SEE ghost signs & stone carvings that inspired these; found in various nooks and crannies on the high street!
Commissioned by #wyrecouncil made possible thanks to funding from the UK Shared Prosperity Fund, with support from Greater Garstang Partnership Board.
Special thanks to Garstang &District Heritage Society for the collaboration.
#signpainting #endangeredcraft #heritagewalk #walking tour #garstangwalkingfestival #alwayshandpaint #garstang COPY AND PASTE THIS LINK TO BOOK YOUR FREE TICKET! /.../garstangwalkingf.../2148985
I've been creating a new sign paintings in my studio for the stage set on this wondrous show created by Harry Clayton Wright @hclaytonwright and the amazing team credited below including @aysh.de.belle Aish Bell Docherty and Samantha Bell @samdbelle photo credit @deanchalkley_
The sign paintings draw on my love of Blackpool typography- from the collection @showtownbpl Blackpool museum of entertainment history to club culture posters I've snapped on big nights out!
CATCH THE SHOW Touring the UK this MAY
2 may SALFORD @the_lowry w/ @warnmcr
7-9 may BRIGHTON @attenboroughac w/ @brightonfestival
20 may BLACKPOOL @grandtheatrebpl homecoming gala #blackpooltypography #culturalheritage #alwayshandpaint
MR BLACKPOOL’S SEASIDE SPECTACLUAR Saturday night at the Queen Elizabeth Hall, @southbankcentre .. Fab show with super performances for the wonderful @hclaytonwright@samdbelle@titty_kaka@aysh.de.belle .. Funny, fast paced tongue-in-cheek variety with heaps of Blackpool charm, dancing, jokes & even a bit of ‘magic’ - as well as a serous side to it too..Salutations to all involved it was great !!
Thank you Lisa (aka @two_am_press on Insta )for inviting me along (Lisa painted the signs on set) Lisa & I first met in Blackpool when I was studying photography there a few decades ago. Seeing Lisa & her friends at the MR.BLACKPOOL show was the perfect ✨..
Halloween teaser from the studio where new artworks are underway for @hclaytonwright s epic ‘Mr Blackpool’s Seaside Spectacular, an end of the pier show at the end of the world’ coming to @northern_stage@southbankcentre@unity_theatre
this November.
This collaboration has inspired new sign paintings made with ‘endangered craft processes’ here in my studio, where I work as one of the last sign painters in #Blackpool
Through immersion in our cultural heritage and entertainment history of this town, and inspiration of language and typography of show posters @showtownbpl museum we have collaborated to conjure this recipe of new paintings to be revealed at the show…
see you there!
#signpainter #endangeredcraft #alwayshandpaint
As the residue of summer gets tidied up in the studio, I’m musing on recent sign making workshops with children, house paintings, pubs signs, climbing up ladders, round drain pipes… while the emotional temperature of the world is hot, embrace creative visions #alwayshandpaint
Up cycling surplus materials to create signs @barrowfull pop up workshop @barrowfestivaloftransport we had a great time 😁thanks to everyone who joined the fun! Brilliant working with the fab Danielle @yapperschappers art car!
Back at Two a.m. Press studio-Prints taken from metal cast grids in collaboration with @josephtravisart researching industrial heritage of Fleetwood foundries. Other Sign Paintings in this image were made by @two_am_press during #artscouncilofengland endangered craft project #acegram
Searching for gold in #Fleetwood with fellow artist @josephtravisart we walked the town taking hand rolled prints from cast metal grids and found this marvellous tram shelter just clinging onto life, its gold painted Fleur De Lis designs are ready for our #restoration... #art and #heritageworkers #researchanddevelopment #localhistorywalks #alwayshandpaint
Theres something about Gold Leaf... it shines like nothing else and can last for 100 years! Here's a gold leaf sign I painted for a beautiful tattoo studio... contact us for signs made to order! #alwayshandpaint #goldleafsigns doorway @ the former #luciditytattoo #madebyhand #signpainting
Made for the 50th Birthday of my beautiful friend last year. Signs made to order as unique gifts for your loved ones! 😍#yourtexthere #handpaintedsigns #bespokegifts #alwayshandpaint #signpainting #artisansigns
Enamel Signs! made to order! #handpainted at my studio and delivered by post! suitable for indoor and outdoors. Your slogan can be painted on these composite metal sheets, ready to hang on walls, doors, boats, bars etc! #handpaintedsigns #yourtexthere #traditionalsignpainting
