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Twelve chapters, one house

Whatever you love, made beautiful

Your best friend, your family, your street, your business. We make each one into something you can hang, watch, visit or live in.

All of it lives in Galley, the house’s own room, where the pictures and every earlier draft are kept.

An oil painting of a noblewoman in green velvet seated in a sunlit loggia, holding a gilt-framed portrait of a brown-and-white spaniel while the real spaniel sits at her side and looks up at her.

Chapter I

Paint My Best Friend

Begin with your best friend.

Every best friend hangs like an old master

A French bulldog in a summer garden, an old Labrador by the window: Painted Pup paints each best friend the way the people who love them see them. Pawtrait brings a cat to life in gold on film, and Painted Mare puts cats under umbrellas and a horse in bold shapes.

  • French bulldog in a summer garden

  • Old Labrador by the window

  • Shepherd in golden light

  • Golden retriever at dusk

  • A good dog meets the sea

  • Cat in gold and black

  • Ginger cat on a petal

  • Shepherd mix in the wheat

  • Cats with umbrellas

  • Horse in bold shapes

  • A cat comes alive in gold

  • Advert: the dog who runs the house

An oil painting of a wooded park at golden hour where a painter at his easel paints a red stag, a fox and a hare standing calmly together in the clearing beside him.

Chapter II

Paint the Wild Ones

Then the ones nobody takes for a walk.

A meerkat at sundown, a tiger in pop colour

Pawtrait paints the meerkat, the sugar glider, the armadillo and the dolphins with the care it gives a dog. Painted Agency adds a rhinoceros in lilac, and a red panda climbs a golden branch on film.

  • Meerkat at sundown

  • Sugar glider under a starry sky

  • Armadillo in gold

  • Skunk under the moon

  • Elephant, travel poster

  • Tiger in pop colour

  • Dolphins in the surf

  • Rhinoceros in lilac

  • Red panda on a golden branch

An oil painting of a centaur drawing a bow and a young hero in bronze armour and a red cloak, facing each other across a sunlit cliff above a blue sea.

Chapter III

Paint My Myth

Imagine yourself among the gods.

You, as the hero of an old story

Painted Myths puts the people and pets you love into the old stories: a centaur in gold leaf, Odin in a woodcut. Two films carry the same halls to life, from the hall of the gods to Fenrir breaking loose.

  • Centaur in gold leaf

  • Goddess of the waves

  • Achilles at Troy

  • Centaur on a red-figure vase

  • The oracle at Delphi

  • Feast on Olympus

  • Gilgamesh at the blue gate

  • Lakshmi on the lotus

  • Odin in Asgard, woodcut

  • A centaur in the study

  • The hall of the gods

  • Fenrir breaks loose

An oil painting of an astronomer in a blue robe beside a brass armillary sphere on a marble terrace at dusk, with a golden zodiac wheel of animal emblems glowing in the sky.

Chapter IV

Paint My Stars

Look up, because the old stories are still written in the sky.

Every sign in a different hand

Painted Zodiac paints your sign in the hand you choose, from Scorpio in neon to Taurus in flowers. Painted Heavens draws the constellations across the night on film, and an armillary sphere holds all twelve signs in brass.

  • Leo under the stars

  • Libra, the desert scales

  • Sagittarius in fire

  • Cancer, illuminated

  • Taurus in flowers

  • Aquarius pours the stars

  • Scorpio in neon

  • The armillary sphere

  • The zodiac, nouveau

  • Libra in the studio

  • Constellations drawn across the night

  • Advert: Leo takes up space

An oil painting of a Renaissance theatre lit by torches, where an actor in crimson and gold declaims on stage before a painted backdrop of hills and a lake while the audience watches from the dark.

Chapter V

Star in the Matinee

Imagine your name above the title.

Cast your pet as the vampire or the crooner

Painted Halloween turns your face, or your dog’s, into the poster of a 1954 atomic monster movie or a gothic vampire, for grown-ups only. Painted Premiere does it for every genre in 72 styles, from studio noir to a neon city detective, and its palace picture house plays the results on screen.

  • Atomic monster movie, 1954

  • The creature workshop

  • Gothic vampire, 1958

  • Werewolf by moonlight

  • Caped hero in the storm

  • Neon city detective

  • Studio noir, 1944

  • The crooner, 1929

  • The Headless Horseman, engraved

  • The palace picture house

  • Advert: the shadow audition

An oil painting of a palazzo hall dressed with evergreen garlands and red ribbons for Christmas, where a family seen from behind looks up at a gilt-framed portrait of themselves.

Chapter VI

Paint the Holidays

Then the season comes round again.

The family portrait goes up for Christmas

Painted Holidays paints your family into Christmas by candlelight, a royal Christmas, New Year sparklers and the Thanksgiving table. Then it shows the canvas over the sofa and the print in the hall, the walls the portraits are made for.

  • The portrait goes up for Christmas

  • A royal Christmas

  • Christmas by candlelight

  • New Year sparklers

  • Christmas canvas over the sofa

  • Christmas print in the hall

  • Thanksgiving canvas in the dining room

  • Thanksgiving table, painted

  • Advert: the family portrait

An oil painting of a sunlit workshop where one craftsman pins up a child's crayon drawing of a sun, a house and a purple dog, and another holds up a finished oil painting of the same scene.

Chapter VII

Paint Their Drawing

Now the smallest artists in the house.

A year of drawings, hung as one masterpiece

Treasures Kept gathers your child’s year of drawings into one bright collage, or paints a favourite the way Monet, Seurat or Van Gogh might have. One film shows the collage framed on a wall at home.

  • Monster on the great wave

  • Dinosaur on painted squares

  • Butterfly among the stars

  • Rocket through a starry night

  • Puppy on a Sunday riverbank

  • Rainbow over the water lilies

  • Sailboat on a field of woven flowers

  • Every drawing, one collage

  • On the shelf at home

  • The drawing wall

An oil painting of an alpine lake under snowy peaks, with skiers on the slope to one side and players in white on a grass tennis court by a villa on the other.

Chapter VIII

Paint My Places

Now the places you could walk with your eyes closed.

From Zermatt to Everest, drawn like a map

Painted Piste draws Zermatt as a contour chart and St. Moritz in relief, Painted Peaks paints Everest in watercolour, and Painted Summit maps the route to the top. Painted Court lights a tennis court at night, and Painted Course turns a golf course into a great wave. Painted Circuit films the links in the dunes at first light.

  • Zermatt, contour chart

  • St. Moritz in relief

  • Everest, watercolour map

  • The route to the summit

  • Tennis under floodlights

  • Victory on clay

  • The grass club at morning

  • Courts from above

  • A golf course as a great wave

  • Links in the dunes at first light

An oil painting of a sunlit villa gallery hung salon-style with framed paintings of a spaniel, horses, hillside views and portraits, while visitors in Renaissance dress stop to admire them.

Chapter IX

Hang It at Home

Choose a wall, then choose what hangs on it.

Deco posters and old gods, ready for your wall

Painted Agency prints a chalet at dusk, a breaking wave and a cypress road under a crescent moon in the flat colour of the Deco poster. Bacchanal brings Ariadne waking and the leopard and the cup, Three Walls keeps tickets and letters on a wall, and a Painted Crest film follows a crest from great hall to family wall.

  • Chalet at dusk

  • Curio shelf, deco

  • Snow peak and lake

  • Breaking wave

  • Rain on the pool

  • Rain over the plain

  • Cypress road under a crescent moon

  • Ariadne waking

  • The leopard and the cup

  • The spill

  • Tickets and letters, kept

  • Advert: see it at home

  • The crest, from great hall to family wall

An oil painting of a young man in a cloak stepping through a stone archway in a sunlit Italian courtyard into a rain-wet city glowing with pink and blue neon.

Chapter X

Step Into a World

Follow the lanterns in.

Worlds with a lantern market and a wind shrine

Linehaze puts you inside one of ten worlds, drawn in many hands: the lantern market, the drowned library in stained glass, the wind shrine in neon rain. The last train carries the whole world on film.

  • First snow crossing

  • Lantern market

  • The drowned library

  • The wind shrine

  • Undercity arcade

  • The drowned library in stained glass

  • The wind shrine in neon rain

  • Terrace of bells

  • Genta at the lantern market

  • High rooftops

  • Advert: the last train

An oil painting of craftsmen hauling ropes to raise a timber pavilion in a hillside vineyard, beside a market stall with a striped awning and baskets of grapes.

Chapter XI

Build Your Brand

A brand needs a front door worth walking through.

Timber on the corner, kava on the beach

Plansmith draws timber buildings, from a courtyard among the trees to a roof terrace over the city. Kava Life, a kava drink, and Hall of Game, a collector’s vault, are two brands we are dressing now, ahead of their launch.

  • Timber building at dusk

  • Courtyard among the trees

  • A floor lifted into place

  • Timber on the corner

  • Roof terrace over the city

  • Kava on the beach at sunset

  • Aloha spritz

  • Lagoon cooler

  • The watch tray

  • The closed box

  • One room, one shirt

  • Kava at sundown

  • The house at night

  • Opening the watch tray

An oil painting of a studio lit by a high window, where a man looks through a modern cinema camera on a tripod at a woman in white and gold drapery posing as a goddess.

Chapter XII

Watch It Move

Watch what we do.

Yosemite at the opening, an orca at first light

Slipway’s films move from Yosemite in the opening scene to surf on the rocks, light through the kelp and fog over the forest. We build the first screens too, among them a sea of clouds at sunrise and the home pages of Garboard, Linehaze and Painted Shores, and Nitrate closes on The Last Reel.

  • Sea of clouds at sunrise

  • Orca at first light

  • Garboard, home page

  • Linehaze, home page

  • Painted Shores, home page

  • Harbour island model

  • Yosemite, the opening scene

  • Surf on the rocks

  • Light through the kelp

  • Fog over the forest

  • The last reel

We hope that you have fun here, and that you find at least one piece of new art that you like.

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