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Jill Strong is a British sign writer and lettering artist; she came to lettering from graphic design in the 1990s.
Scroll down to see some of her work.

Although she has no wish to become a fairground decorator, she loves old fairground art and enjoys recreating baroque fairground lettering using traditional techniques with aluminium leaf and amber flamboyant varnish. She has recently been lettering skateboards using these methods - the results are dazzling.

Jill likes to mix things up and has a long-running series of notebooks full of experiments; fairground art rendered in fluorescent paints; graffiti crossed with silver leaf work; Art Nouveau letters morphing into hand-style; Sanskrit on a skateboard; Victoriana crashing into the Spiderverse...

A large solo exhibition is planned for The Castle in Bude in 2026.

- - - Interesting commissions still undertaken - please get in touch for an estimate - - -

Watch this!

In 2020, Film-maker David Basso shot a mini documentary about Jill's work - click here - to check it out.