COMMISSIONS
SOMETHING FOR YOUR WALL
Most of my work ends up somewhere with people standing in front of it — cafés, shops, dispensaries, offices, front rooms. If you have a wall, I will make something for it, at whatever size the wall actually is.
WHAT I TAKE ON
- Large-format canvas made for one specific space.
- Sets and series running across several walls.
- Work sized to fit something awkward.
- Brand, packaging and licensing projects.
- Pieces with something hidden in them, if you have something worth hiding.
HOW IT WORKS
- 01Tell me about the space. A photo of the wall, rough dimensions, what happens in the room, and when you need it.
- 02I come back with a direction. Concept, size, medium, price and timeline. No charge for this part.
- 03I make it. Drawn by hand, printed, then worked back into. You see it before it is finished, not after.
- 04It arrives. Signed, with a certificate of authenticity.
WHERE THE NAME COMES FROM
MOUNTEBANK
/ˈmaʊntɪbaŋk/ · noun · 1570s
A travelling showman who climbed onto a bench in a market square and held a crowd — with a story, a trick, some music — before selling them something. From the Italian montambanco, monta in banco: “mount on bench.”
MOUNTEBANK and MONTE BAUNK are the same ten letters. Nothing added, nothing left over.
I took the name for the bench, not the quackery. The work is drawn by hand, line by line, and it is meant to hold you the way that crowd got held — by looking like one thing and turning out to be another. The craft is real. The misdirection is the art.