How We Paint Tiles

Hand painting cockerel tiles - Tiles of Stow
Hand painting tiles Seb - Tiles of Stow
Hand painting tiles Odette - Tiles of Stow
Hand painting flower tiles - Tiles of Stow
Hand painting cockerel tiles – Tiles of Stow
Hand painting tiles Seb – Tiles of Stow
Hand painting tiles Odette – Tiles of Stow
Hand painting flower tiles – Tiles of Stow
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A tradition of hand painting tiles

Still as popular as when we began making tiles, the hand painted tile mural is the classic choice for a stunning focal point set within your kitchen or bathroom wall tiles. Over the years, we have been asked to paint numerous subjects – some more unusual than others – and all have been created with painstaking care and lots of enthusiasm. Our murals are in homes around the world as far afield as Australia and America.

Every panel we produce is individually hand decorated by us. This means that your mural will be painted to fit exactly into the space you want tiled.

You can choose from the murals in our Mural Collection, which we can adapt and change to suit your requirements.

Careful planning goes into every tile mural we paint. For each project, we produce a scale drawing of your proposed mural – shown in the space you are tiling – so you can see exactly what the composition of the final piece will be. With your approval we then paint and fire your design onto your chosen base ceramic tiles.

Bespoke Colours

We make all our own coloured glazes from scatch to our own special recipes that we have developed over the last 30 years. Ceramic pigments are mixed and ground together with a special turpentine which “sticks” the glaze onto the tile. During firing, this binder burns off leaving the glaze to melt and combine with the tile’s glaze.

Some of the processes involved in painting a tile mural: