About

Hi there, my name is Dylan Butler and I am a 3rd Generation, Multi Award Winning Painter & Decorator, Signwriter & Sign Maker, Mural Artist, & practicing Artist, based out of Peramangk Country, in the Barossa Valley, South Australia.

I learnt my trade in my hometown of Port Pirie from my Father, Michael Butler. A well decorated Painter/Decorator, and a very accomplished teacher of the trade. My Grandad was also a painter and I enjoy using is tools and equipment almost every other day when i’m painting, plus two or a few tricks from him too.

Painting and Decorating: I am a qualified and licensed Painter and Decorator for any Domestic, Commercial or Industrial project, with a passion and strong experience in restoring heritage and significant buildings. Learning the painting trade in Port Pirie spanned from restoring all the heritage listed buildings in town, new buildings with local builders, industrial projects, decorative finishes, wallpapering, roof restorations, ect, covering all realms of realms of the trade. After my time in Port Pirie I moved to Adelaide for three years and worked alongside two of South Australia’s most awarded painting companies, Derek Wales and Son and Jonathan Luby. Where I continued to work amongst the best standards of commercial painting in Adelaide and the Nation.

About continuted: After that I lived in Banff, AB, Canada for a couple of years and broadened my professional horizons into the sign and mural world. With generous stints at Mt Norquay participating some extraordinary industrial painting and building projects on the slopes of the rocky mountains, as well as sign restorations and creations, heavy duty vehicle body restorations and custom hand painted finishes, my first public mural and some more. Then working at Banff Sign Co expanded my knowledge of the sign world, as we designed, crafted, and moulded wooden signs from kiln-dried western red cedar, and decorated them with paint and gold leaf everyday.

I have now been self employed since 2019 back home in South Australia. Working primarily by myself, or with sub-contracting teams of 1-4 personnel to assist with bigger projects.

Signwriting and making: Since vinyl printing and stickers came onto the scene in the 80’s, the signwriting trade has undergone a dramatic transformation. Keeping signwriting alive in a more traditional/post-modern style and waste free manner is something I always try to achieve in my signwriting work, and I love a challenging canvas. Making signs from up-cycled and rustic style materials is my favourite, and can attend to any other traditional or customisable sign writing project.

Art: Creating anything that starts as an idea or picture in my head and seeing it come to life is something I have always enjoyed.. I think most people have this within them, whether it be created with a brush and paint, infinite amounts of other artistic mediums, or the life they want to live. I’ve been lucky to enjoy painting a lot of incredible murals nowadays, something I always admired as a young apprentice Painter and Decorator. I like to balance a relationship between my applications and the beauty of a canvas. Plus it’s surroundings if possible.

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