An Authentic Dedication to Traditional Craftsmanship for Over 35 Years

Creating gilded art and hand-painted signs that blend timeless techniques with genuine artistic vision.

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With over 35 years of experience, 2nd generation Visual Artist Sean Starr and Master Gilder has been creating original art and providing gilding, decorative painting, custom mirrors, restorations, and sign painting services to other artists, architects, interior designers, collectors, sacred spaces and business owners throughout the United States and abroad.

His work has been featured in the documentary film and book "Sign Painters" as well as on the Discovery Channel, Robb Report, Juxtapoz, Art Forum, Dallas Observer, Houston Press, Fort Worth Magazine, and Cavallino Magazine to name just a few. Sean Starr is the host of the documentary film “
Art is Love: Nepal.”

The studio’s clients have included Sony Music, NBC Television, The GAP, Starbucks, Indian Motorcycle as well as Reese Witherspoon, Fleetwood Mac's Lindsay Buckingham, and the bands The Cranberries and The Toadies and some of the top car collectors in the United States.

Sean Starr’s original artwork has been displayed in dozens of exhibitions at galleries and institutions in New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston, Napa Valley, Philadelphia, Chicago, San Antonio and Ireland.

Centrally located in Texas, the studio works regularly with clients in the Dallas Fort Worth Metroplex, the Houston area and the Texas Hill Country, as well as with clients all over the United States and have executed projects as far away as Ireland and Nepal.

Gold Leaf Signs

We design and execute a wide variety of gold leaf lettering and graphics on glass ranging from 23.75k gold leaf to silver, copper and Dutch leaf and create gold leaf signs on metal and wood.
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Traditional Sign Painting

Sean Starr is recognized as one of the leaders in contemporary sign painting in the United States and in addition to being featured as one of the artist’s in the book and documentary “Sign Painters”, his sign painting themed artwork has been exhibited in gallery and museum exhibitions around the world.
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Custom Mirrors & Verre Eglomise

For many years, Sean Starr’s specialty has been in the design and execution of gilded glass mirrors and artwork known as verre églomisé. Verre églomisé is a decorative art technique that involves the application of gold or metal leaf, often combined with intricate painting, onto the reverse side of glass.
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Statuary, Architectural & Liturgical Gilding

From statuary and architectural gilding exterior projects exposed to the elements to interior pieces and details, we utilize traditional materials and old world techniques using genuine gold and metal leaf on wood, bronze, glass and more.
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Classic Car Lettering & Gold Leafing

From Pebble Beach Concours d’ Elegance winners to classic car collectors and commissioned art pieces for clients like Indian Motorcycle, Sean’s work has been covered in the top auto and moto magazines around the world.
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Lectures & Live Painting

Sean has provided dozens of lectures and live painting demonstrations on gilding, sign painting and design at Museums, Universities, Arts Organizations and Corporations for over two decades.

Sean is an advocate for bringing awareness to the preservation of traditional craftsmanship.

2005: "Meet the Artist" and Studio Tour Tacoma Chamber of Commerce, Tacoma, Washington

2006: "Lyrical Abstraction" Exhibit Agora Gallery New York, New York

2012: "Lecture and Workshop" Texas Women's University, Denton, Texas

2015: "Lecture and Workshop" Limerick School for Arts & Design, Limerick, Ireland

2016: "AIGA Fresh Meet Series" American Institute of Graphic Arts Dallas, Dallas, Texas

2016: "WMC7 Guest Speaker" Weapons of Mass Creation 7, Cleveland, Ohio

2018: “For Hire: Contemporary Sign Painting in America” Houston Center for Contemporary Craft, Houston, Texas

2019: Private Corporate Design Talk Dallas, Texas

2020: Live Painting Groesbeck Grand Prix Groesbeck, Texas

2023: Live Painting Wheels Watches & Whiskey College Station, Texas

2023: AutoMoto Film Festival Talk with Artist Robert Williams Los Angeles, California

2024: "Gallery Talk: Gold Gilding and the Medieval Collection" Meadows Museum Dallas, Texas

2025: Private Corporate Live Painting Event San Antonio, Texas

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Sean Starr is host of the Award Winning documentary Art Is Love: Nepal

In this documentary feature film by Exploredinary, Texas artist and sign painter Sean Starr visits the country of Nepal to explore it's extraordinary array of traditional and handcrafted arts, visiting Thangka painters, wood carvers, singing bowl manufacturers, and paper makers to illustrate the significance of Nepali art passed down from generation to generation. His journey culminates with an epic motorcycle adventure into the Himalayas to visit the Magar people and paint a mural in the remote village of Gulmi.