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Its always a pleasure seeing work in progress and then the finished piece of some of the most talented gilders, artists, signwriters etc that we have the pleasure in supplying..  When looking through Instagram, I came across some work done by one of Wrights many long standing customers Jo Green, of these incredible urns that are part of a pier...

Saul Hay Gallery's first ever show dedicated solely to sculpture includes work by some of the most acclaimed artists working in the UK today. ​ The exhibition will showcase the huge variety in style, material and technique in contemporary sculpture and among the artists showing will be the acclaimed ceramicist Halima Cassell following her highly successful solo show at Manchester...

We are pleased to be stocking the new “Mark 2” designs of the Peter Anthony Mahl Stick, as pictured below.  We do have some of the Mark 1 mahl sticks in stock but its very limited and they are running out fast !!  

Who remembers Deka Acrylic Signwriting Enamel !! An acrylic enamel that could be used interior and exterior and was probably one of the best on the market, so was such a shame to see this product discontinue !! Until now we haven’t been able to find anything that works as well for signwriters of similar acrylic quality to the Deka...

We find ourselves in such strange times of recent with many projects, concerts, festivals etc being cancelled, one of which is of course the 134th Wimbledon Championship that many of us will be missing over this last couple of weeks especially the strawberries and cream !! Of recent years a very talented signwriter and long standing customer of Wrights of...

Janet Carey a long standing customer of Wrights of Lymm was awarded the job of repairing the weathervane of The Caledonian Clock Tower, built in 1855. The 46 metres (151ft) tower and weathervane are Grade II listed, so what an honour this must have been for Janet to be part of the restoration of such history. The weathervane was stripped...

David Kynaston….As a teenager, when milking the cows at his home farm, would take the opportunity of using chalk on a big plastered wall to practise lettering, and now some 38 years later David is now known all over the world for his talent in signwriting, graining, gilding and the most amazing artist skills and has featured in many publications...

In the year that Great Britain issued the world’s first adhesive stamp, The Penny Black featuring Queen Victoria, construction began on Westminster Palace replacing an earlier Medieval palace which burned down in 1834 and Charles Wilkes was first to identify Antarctica as a continent,  a gentleman named William Wright took up gold beating in the City of London forming what...

This past few months have been very strange times for us all and I’m sure it will be some time before we will all be back to what we class as “normal”, however we at Wrights of Lymm have not wanted to let you any of our customer base down and have continued working through this pandemic to be here...

Port Meirion in North Wales, what an idyllic place, so unique with such a close knit community that take pride in their village.  It was a pleasure watching on Tuesday evening on ITV, The Village, a series of a year in the life of a village keeping the magic alive. We saw Resident artist Nigel taking on the job of...