About the service
I specialize in hand-painted ceramic tiles for kitchen backsplashes — creating custom artwork tailored to your specific kitchen rather than a standard catalog pattern. The image is selected to fit your wall's exact dimensions, coordinates with your cabinet and countertop colors, and centers on a theme you truly love: a still life with vegetables and herbs, a seascape, stylized botanical ornament, a family symbol, or an abstract composition that echoes your interior design.
The work begins with a consultation about your space: wall width and height, the area behind the stove or sink where splash and heat resistance matter most, your current kitchen palette, and the desired mood — warm and rustic, bright and modern, or calm and muted. I then prepare two or three sketches so you can see the composition before a single tile is touched. Once approved, the design is gridded to match your tile layout, ensuring the image reads correctly across grout lines and diagonal joints without awkward breaks.
Each tile is hand-painted with ceramic kitchen-grade pigments, then kiln-fired — the paint fuses permanently with the glaze. The finished surface withstands heat, steam, grease splatters, and routine wet cleaning with household products — it performs as standard glazed tile because that is exactly what it becomes after firing. Tiles are numbered and shipped with a layout diagram so a tile setter (or you, if comfortable working with tile) can assemble the panel without mistakes.
At every stage — sketch, underglaze painting, post-firing — I send photos of the work's progress so you understand where the project stands and can request minor adjustments before the final firing that locks in the result permanently. I work with standard tile sizes and custom cutting, can paint a single accent section above the stove or a full-wall panel — based on your budget and vision. If the tile is already installed and you want a removable panel design without demolition — that is also negotiable.
Send me the wall dimensions, a few photos of your kitchen, and the colors or themes you connect with — I'll prepare sketches and exact pricing before painting begins.
The work begins with a consultation about your space: wall width and height, the area behind the stove or sink where splash and heat resistance matter most, your current kitchen palette, and the desired mood — warm and rustic, bright and modern, or calm and muted. I then prepare two or three sketches so you can see the composition before a single tile is touched. Once approved, the design is gridded to match your tile layout, ensuring the image reads correctly across grout lines and diagonal joints without awkward breaks.
Each tile is hand-painted with ceramic kitchen-grade pigments, then kiln-fired — the paint fuses permanently with the glaze. The finished surface withstands heat, steam, grease splatters, and routine wet cleaning with household products — it performs as standard glazed tile because that is exactly what it becomes after firing. Tiles are numbered and shipped with a layout diagram so a tile setter (or you, if comfortable working with tile) can assemble the panel without mistakes.
At every stage — sketch, underglaze painting, post-firing — I send photos of the work's progress so you understand where the project stands and can request minor adjustments before the final firing that locks in the result permanently. I work with standard tile sizes and custom cutting, can paint a single accent section above the stove or a full-wall panel — based on your budget and vision. If the tile is already installed and you want a removable panel design without demolition — that is also negotiable.
Send me the wall dimensions, a few photos of your kitchen, and the colors or themes you connect with — I'll prepare sketches and exact pricing before painting begins.
