Hommage to Bad Brains' 'Yellow Tape' as a t-shirt design for Ben the Baker at The Electric Bakery, Bude UK.
Swipe to see the original, Bude's storm tower and my 1989 Bad Brains concert ticket.

#handstyle
#fancylettering
#panafricancolours
#rastapunk
#badbrainstheband
#oldpunks
#oldpunksneverdie
#alwayshandletter
#alwayshandpaint
#letteringartist
#letteringartistcornwall
#rockandrollletteringartist
#womenwhosignpaint
#jillstrongsigns
#jillstrongart

After a six-month break from social media, I'm back in the workshop. Big exhibition planned at The Castle, Bude, UK for September 2026.

#handstyle
#blackletter
#tuscan
#sanskrit
#ornamentallettering
#fancylettering
#funkylettering
#victorianornamentedlettering
#nineteenthcenturytypefaces
#amberedsilver
#fauxgoldleaf
#flamboyants
#alwayshandletter
#alwayshandpaint
#letteringartist
#letteringartistcornwall
#rockandrollletteringartist
#womenwhosignpaint
#exhibitionatthecastlebude
#jillstrongsigns
#jillstrongart
#nahmateimakecakesnow

Had a top day out in Marseille, meeting my favourite (living) graffiti lettering artist @fuego_29 for a sign swap.
Look the way his beautiful fire lettering moves... crazy talented dude :D
In return, I did some of my 'fairground tuscan' style with ultra-black shadows.

Took the slow train south to spend time taking in the dusty countryside and vinyards I'll soon be leaving :-)

#fuego
#firelettering
#graffitilettering
#signswap
#trocdepano
#fairgroundtuscan
#nineteenthcenturytypeface #victorianornamentedlettering #alileaf
#flamboyants
#vantablack
#musoublackpaint
#alwayshandletter
#alwayshandpaint
#peintreenlettrestresrock
#peintreenlettresdrome
#womenwhosignpaint
#letteringartist
#jillstrongsigns
#jillstrongart

When your children built a raised bed from found wood and you could quite resist hitting it with the Blackletter ;-)

#blackletter
#thecoffin
#nosferatu
#signpainter
#signwriter
#letteringartist
#alwayshandletter
#alwayshandpaint
#gothicmum
#rusticblackletter
#recycledwoodraisedbed
#jillstrongsigns
#jillstrongart

Clothes horse full of kanji.
These are for a friend's end of school year dance performance; painted on sheets of white fake leather, they're flexible enough to stand being whirled around.
We added the red marks so her pupils can easily get them the rightway round :-)

#signpainter
#signwriter
#kanji
#kanjidancesheets
#japanesecalligraphy
#fakeleather
#jillstrongsigns
#jillstrongart

'Brochier-Basso plage' is a sign in the style of the Parisian metro that I made for my friends Audrey and David.
They've turned their garden into a mini water park and this sign sits proudly in the beach hut.
The sign is completely flat with the tile border painted as trompe l'oeil. Swipe to the last photo to see the flat version.

I did this in the middle of winter and not wanting to stink out the house with oil-based paints, did the whole thing in acrylics.
This is custom lettering, based on Art Nouveau letter shapes and the seven millefiori underneath hold a significance for the B-B family.

Gimme a shout if you want something similar or see other signs and skateboards for sale in my shop: jillstrong.bigcartel.com

#brochierbassoplage
#brochierbassobeach
#malissardplage
#fictitiousstationsign
#fauxstationsign
#parismetrostyle
#parismetrosign
#artnouveaulettering
#fauxartnouveausign
#fauxenamelsign
#customsign
#bespokenamesign
#bespokemetrosign
#parisianmetrotiles
#millefiori
#blueandwhite
#chicdecoration
#chicgardendecoration
#beachhutsign
#personalisedgardensign
#personalisedpoolsign
#interiordecorationidea
#exteriordecorationidea
#retrolettering
#handdrawnlettering
#acrylicpaints
#artisansign
#europeandecorativeart
#wallsign
#decorativewallsign
#largeletteredwallsign
#woodenwallsign
#retroletteredwoodenwallsign
#alwayshandletter
#alwayshandpaint
#signwriterdrome
#peintreenlettrestresrock
#peintreenlettresdrome
#peintreenlettres
#womenwhosignpaint
#letteringartist
#jillstrongsigns
#jillstrongart

Three pre-2000 paintings waiting to be packed up.
At the back, a tribute to Jamie Hewlett's 'Tank Girl' from 1995. It's all hand drawn on home marbled paper and stuck to a piece of wood.
In the middle, part of a painting called 'The Dream' from 2007. At the front, 'Sugar 1' from an exhibition in 2006.
This was all before I started learning to letter properly, but I often included lettering in my work.

All three will be moving back to the UK with me in June. Sixty days to go :-)

#tributetojamiehewlett #tributetotankgirl #1990sart #handdrawn #greboart #dreamart #popart #leavingfrance
#jillstrongart

Three paintings waiting to move to Blighty.
At the back, a tribute to Jamie Hewlett's Tank Girl from 1995. It's all hand drawn on home marbled paper and stuck to a piece of wood.
In the middle, part of a painting called 'The Dream' from 2007.
At the front, 'Sugar 1' from an exhibition in 2006.
This was all before I started learning to letter properly, but I often included lettering in my work.
All three will be moving with me in June. Sixty days to go :-)

#tributetojamiehewlett #tributetotankgirl #1990sart #handdrawn #greboart #dreamart #popart #leavingfrance
#jillstrongart