X-Paint is best known for helmet finishing, but that’s only one strand of a much broader craft.
Over 38 years, the studio’s airbrush and mural work has extended across bikes, cars, walls, guitars and bespoke interiors.
Including collaborations with designer kitchen manufacturers.
Where the technique used in this piece was originally developed and refined for durability and a flawless finish on manufactured board.
It is a technique that we have taken forward and had a lot of fun with creating our own works of art on the few occasions that we have time.
The vast majority of X-Paint’s output is commission work.
Someone else’s brief, someone else’s idea, brought to life to their specification.
That’s the day-to-day of the studio, and it rarely leaves room for anything else.
Every so often, though, a gap opens up in the schedule with no client attached to it.
And the studio gets to set its own brief for once. This trilogy is the result of one of those rare occasions.
Undead Fred opens the set — an illustrative portrait airbrushed on 8mm MDF board, the same substrate used in high-end kitchen door finishing, applied here to fine art rather than cabinetry.
Risen follows — a single hand breaking the surface of a moonlit graveyard, built with the same layered airbrush technique across the same board format.
The third piece in the set, First Responders, extends the scene further — a crowd advancing through the same setting, completing the trilogy as a single narrative told across three boards.
Each piece is a signed original, and soon to be available individually or as a set through the X-Paint online shop.
The same process transfers directly to bespoke interiors and joinery — feature walls, kitchen cabinetry, panelling, statement pieces — for designers and manufacturers looking for hand-finished artwork beyond standard print or vinyl. Enquiries from trade and design partners welcome.
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Also see: Broke Tings — mixed media art built from broken things, and the Custom Painted Bike Tank, another example of illustrative airbrush work off the helmet.
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