Hand Painted Murial for Glastonbury

We've taken on a mammoth project for two of our veteran painters, Steve and Nick. A giant hand-painted Murial, measuring an incredible 80 ft x 16 ft which will be used for Glastonbury & some other festivals for this Summer of 2008.

The giant image is hand painted in a distinctive Lichtenstein style, on up to 50 wooden boards, which will be assembled at the coming summer festivals. Steve and Nick are true Veterans of the Murial circuit, painting professionally as freelancers for almost the last three decades. We are pleased to have them on-board on a more permanent basis.

I have to say the Glastonbury Murial is looking fantastic so far, the sharpness of the painting is second to none, and I really couldn't tell it apart from a screen print. The reality is that you could never screen print anything this big, there are just no screens large enough. And solvent printing may be a little bit cheaper, but they are no way near as durable as these hand-painted panels, each having up to 4 undercoats and a few layers of varnish over the top. This is precisely why a lot of our clients are regressing to using traditional hand-paintings again, it just looks that much more impressive, and gives the art a more traditional feel. We are finding more and more that art and design is turning full circle, with more and more clients choosing hand painted art over more modern Computer aided designs (CADs). When new technologies arrive they can wipe out entire industries, and it would be sad to see the skill of hand-painting to disappear. So we are working extra hard to make sure that it is not lost in the ages, a victim to the modern day computer and Adobe Photoshop. You can expect a lot more hand produced art from us in the future, we are certainly moving that way with are street art prints and Plastic art ranges, as well as bringing new artists on board like BOYD to produce hand produced, hand stenciled real art.



If you would like a quote on any hand produced art, Murial's, film or theatre sets, please let us know - you can email us on the WHoArtNow contact pages. We intend to keep this news feed going, so watch this space and you can follow Steve and Nick's progress through the 30 day marathon of solid painting that they are undertaking!

New "Plastic Art" Range Launched for WHoArtNow

We are very pleased to an announce a brand new range of unique hand crafted art, produced exclusively for WHoArtnow.co.uk. We have been hard at work for the last 4 months, developing art on diverse materials such as 12” vinyl records, perspex and, Metal and textured aluminum that have a superior look and feel, and are like nothing else being produced out there. Feel free to check out the new Plastic Art range.

We are also proud to introduce our "resident" designers, like Frazier BOYD [see Jimi Hendrix Above] who have played a huge part in putting the Plastic art together.

Plastic Art is a move-on from the digital "giclee" canvas prints that WHoArtNow has been producing since 2004, and we have tried to position the new brand, so that it will not detract from the original product, but compliment it. It has been designed to be for the more discerning person that is looking for something completely different for their abode. The textures and imperfections created by stencilling are really what make these art pieces unique, you just can not re-create these with traditional wide-format / solvent printers, and the hand-crafted element gives it a real sense of uniqueness.


On the reverse of the Plastic Art, comes a hand made fir wood frame, similar to the frames we use for our canvas prints. The frame will sit the 12" Vinyl Art off the well by 1", and comes complete with slotted mirror plates, ready to hang. We are running a competition to win a 6 piece Jimi Hendrix, in a special limited mint green colour. It's worth £159 & all you have to do is sign up to our monthly newsletter, or join us as a fan on our new facebook page, please feel free to visit our competition page for more info.