The Boyd is Back in Town
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2025/05/the-boyd-is-back-in-town/
Boyd Pianos’ ghost sign on Shaklewell Lane, London E8, revealed again after 13 years’ hibernation.
#BoydPianos #GhostSigns #Ghostsigns #Hackney #London #Palimpsest #Pianos #Preservation #Protection #Reveal #Signwriter #Signwriting #StreetArt #Theatre #UK
Thank you to everyone that has already backed this Kickstarter to get signwriter Brian Walker's story told in a short biopic.
You can back the project from as little as £1 here: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/samroberts/when-better-letters-met-brian-walker-a-short-biopic?ref=9wh6qg
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I've been contacted by an established shop in Hertfordshire that's looking for a freelance #signwriter to do a day or two a week with them.
Their work is for pubs, and they need someone that's able to get going straight away with shadowing, surface gilding, double coating etc.
This is not a trainee position, but there will be opportunities to learn 'on the job', and you'd need your own vehicle.
If you or someone you know might be interested, then send details to sam@bl.ag.
H. Newman & Sons (Have Removed), Melbourne
https://ghostsigns.co.uk/2024/06/h-newman-sons-have-removed-melbourne/
A surviving palimpsest in the centre of Melbourne reveals the legacy of the jeweller and watchmaker Henry Newman. Photo: Sean Reynolds.
A surviving palimpsest in the centre of Melbourne reveals the legacy of the jeweller and watchmaker Henry Newman. Photo: Sean Reynolds.
New at bl.ag online, 'Ye Olde Sign Shoppe: George Biles, King of Signwriters': https://bl.ag/biles
Learn about the diverse and prolific output of sign painter George Biles, and a retrospective exhibition in Bridport, Dorset, this summer.
Photo courtesy of Ken Allen's George Biles photo album.
#SignPainter #signwriter #SignPainting #calligraphy #lettering #art #artist #DecorativeArt #pictorial #bridport #dorset
'George Biles: King of Signwriters' is an exhibition across multiple venues in Bridport, Dorset, 1–29 August.
https://www.bridport-tc.gov.uk/george-biles-lottery-project/
This will be quite special, and in the coming weeks, I'll publish a piece at https://bl.ag online.
I'll be making a day of it on Friday, 23 August, so if you'd be interested in joining me then send me a message, or email sam@bl.ag to coordinate.
#Bridport #Dorset #SignPainting #signwriting #SignPainter #signwriter #exhibition
Bridport Town Council has received a National Lottery Heritage fund grant of £9,550 toward a local heritage project that will conserve and celebrate the artworks of George Biles. George Biles (b.1900 / d.1987) was a highly talented signwriter and pictorial painter who lived in Bridport throughout his life. For many years George painted the pub
Piece profiling recently deceased Hull sign painter Alan Stutt, alongside a gallery of his work in the city.
New at bl.ag online, 'Ye Olde Sign Shoppe: Gran Canaria’s Tomás Prieto Gálvez'.
This is my latest adventure in translating Spanish sign painting articles, and another from Jaime Medina about a sign painter from the Canary Islands.
#CanaryIslands #SignPainter #signwriter #SignPainting #signwriting #GranCanaria
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