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Did you know that Surrey is home to one of the most comprehensive custom paint operations in the United Kingdom?
Most people don’t. That’s rather the point.
Somewhere in the Surrey commuter belt, behind an unremarkable postcode, sits a facility whose output would be hard to believe if you saw it gathered in one room.
A Rolls-Royce Ghost, finished in two-tone to a standard the factory itself would recognise. A Ferrari GT car, prepared and liveried for the grid. A classic Mustang under fresh paint on the booth floor, decades melting off it with every coat. A Harley tank rendered freehand, the artwork wrapping the compound curves without a seam or a shortcut. A guitar. A competition helmet bound for one of the most dangerous road circuits on earth.
A phone cover.
One studio. All of it.
The people who find this place tend to find it the old way — a name passed quietly between people who move in the same circles.
A team principal mentions it to a driver. A collector mentions it to another collector.
The work speaks, the work travels, and the enquiries follow.
From a Ferrari to a phone cover.
The breadth is deliberate. The standard is not negotiable.
Have you ever looked closely at a piece of true custom paint and wondered how it’s even possible? The candy layers that shift and deepen as they move through the light. Chrome laid down so convincingly it looks wet enough to run off the panel. A portrait rendered onto compound curves — a tank, a shell, a bonnet — flawless from every angle, with no flat surface anywhere to hide behind. Have you admired the livery on a race car and gone looking for a credit that was never printed? Or caught sight of a finish on a bike and understood, in an instant, that you weren’t looking at a product but at applied art?
Somewhere, someone painted that by hand. And in Surrey, the odds are better than you’d think.
WHERE FINE ART MEETS THE WORKSHOP FLOOR
What sits under this one roof isn’t a body shop with a sideline, or a helmet painter with a good eye and a spray gun. It’s a complete custom paint operation, where several rare disciplines share the same floor and sharpen one another every single day.
There is thirty-eight years of professional airbrush and custom paint experience — alongside some of the UK’s best painters who operate where the gap between good and untouchable is measured in thousandths of an mil and decades of practice. Around it, a fully equipped prestige coachwork facility running professional equipment and the latest paint systems in climate-controlled booths — the kind of setup that takes a supercar back to concours or brings a barn-find classic back to life.
FROM THE GRID TO THE SHOWROOM
The custom paint doesn’t sit on its own. It shares a floor with Sandown Motorsport — a race team and car builder that runs and supports everything from track-day cars to single-seaters, out on the grids at Oulton Park, Donington and Silverstone. Ferrari Challenge machinery, endurance cars, track builds, full trackside support: build, prep, run and repair, all under the same roof as the paint.
That connection is why a job here doesn’t stop at colour. A car can be built, repaired, corner-weighted, liveried and finished in one place, by people who understand what a race car is actually for. And the same eye that liveries a car for the grid turns to the ones built to be looked at — show cars, concours pieces, promotional builds finished to a standard that holds up under a spotlight, not just a pit-lane glance.
Take the Ferrari. It arrived in pieces — a serious accident, the kind most workshops would have written off. It was stripped, rebuilt and refinished almost entirely in-house, and it’s now bound for a second life as a promotional centrepiece: hotel foyers, events, brand displays around the world. From wreck to showpiece, without leaving the building.
That’s the range. Race paint that survives a season of stone chips and scrutineering, or show paint deep enough to stop people in a hotel lobby. A classic Mustang in for a full show finish. A Rolls-Royce in for two-tone. A Ferrari Challenge car in for livery on Monday and a fine-art commission on the bench beside it. Same floor, same hands, same refusal to let anything leave until it’s right.
So who does all this? X-Paint is the specialist custom paint arm of Sandown Coachworks, working alongside Sandown Motorsport, all under one roof in Camberley, Surrey. Prestige coachwork, race build and preparation, freehand airbrush, design and print — every discipline in one place, feeding one another, held to one standard.
Until now, you had to know someone. You don’t anymore, get in touch.
And at the centre of it all sits Creed Gallery — the showroom, and something rarer than a reception desk.
This is where the work goes on show and where the ideas begin. Original fine art and airbrush pieces line the walls, the same hands behind them as behind the cars, the bikes and the helmets. It’s not a waiting room with a coffee machine. It’s a room built to spark something.
Stuck for inspiration? Can’t quite get that next project off the ground — the idea’s in there somewhere, but it won’t come into focus? Then come and talk to us. Sit down, surrounded by contemporary art and custom work, and let the conversation do the rest. There’s no clipboard, no hard sell, and no idea too rough to bring through the door. If you can’t find the spark for your next piece of paintwork here, nestled in a working gallery with four decades of it on the walls, you probably won’t find it anywhere.
And if a piece catches your eye while you’re here? Walk away with it. The gallery is open to anyone in the market for original contemporary art — you might arrive to plan a helmet and leave with something for the wall as well. Two reasons to visit, one address.
However it starts — a commission, a conversation, or a piece you couldn’t leave behind — it starts here. And the first conversation costs nothing.
