Live painting for a company event in London
Giulia Dal Bon paints live during your company evenings, conventions and galas in London. She sets up her easel among the guests and the signed canvas stays with the company the same evening. From €900, invoice in the company name, free quote within 48h.
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Live painting prices for a company event in London
| Company evenings, conventions and seminars | |
|---|---|
| The canvas of the evening, painted live in front of your guests | from €900 |
| Portraits of your guests, during the evening | from €1,200 |
| Large format or a full day | from €2,400 |
| Another length, another place | quote on request |
Free quote within 48 hours
Invoice made out to the company. Travel and logistics are agreed together.
What Giulia can offer for your evening
Tell her what you are looking for, she suggests one option or several, and the evening is built with you.
During the evening
The large canvas, and the guests’ handwriting: Giulia paints the venue that hosts you during the evening, and your guests come and write what they like on it. It is a painted, dated guest book that stays on your wall. From 900 €.
Watercolour portraits of the guests: Giulia sketches them one by one, alone, in pairs or by team, and each person goes home with their own. From 1 200 €.
The canvas painted by your teams: each team paints one part, Giulia links the pieces and holds the composition, and the whole ends up as a single image on your wall. It is the seminar format. From 900 €.
The logo, the product or the winner’s name, painted by hand: Giulia also studied graphic design at the Brera Academy, and she draws the lettering by hand in the colours of the house. A winner’s name can be painted in front of the room and handed over on stage. Included in the canvas of the evening, from 900 €.
The piano and painting show: the piano and the brush move forward together until the last note, and the canvas is uncovered at the end. For a piece of theatre Giulia can paint it upside down and turn it round in front of the room. Quoted on request.
Before and after
The poster for the evening, painted by hand: the invitation, the poster or the programme, painted by hand, then laid out and delivered print-ready. Giulia signed the poster for the 83rd Open d’Italia. From 700 €.
A mural in your offices: once the evening is over, the painting can carry on along a wall, at reception or in a meeting room. With a brush, in odourless acrylic, and the place stays open while she works. From 150 € per sqm.
What live painting brings to an evening in London
London hosts conventions, award nights and gala dinners every week, and guests have seen it all. A painter at work changes the way the room moves: people come over between courses, look at how far the canvas has got, take photographs, and the conversation starts on its own.
Giulia paints the Thames and its bridges, the brick roofs, the room that welcomes you, the brand motif or the scene of the high point. The signed canvas stays with the company, with the date of the evening on it. She lived in London for a year, and it is one of her favourite cities for art.
In practice, for a company in London
Send the date, the venue and the number of guests. Giulia replies within 48 hours with a free, itemised quote that goes straight into a budget, and an invoice in the company name. She prepares two complimentary sketches so that management or the agency can approve the direction before the evening.
She speaks Italian, French, English and Spanish, and works readily with event agencies, who keep control of the running order. Prices are shown in euros and the quote can be issued in pounds.
Event venues in London
Giulia travels to the city's event venues: Old Billingsgate, the listed Victorian fish market, whose Grand Hall seats twelve hundred to eighteen hundred for dinner and whose three levels take up to two thousand five hundred guests, with Tower Bridge from the terrace; ExCeL London in the docks, and its auditorium for four thousand two hundred delegates; the Barbican Centre and its brutalist architecture, for conventions and launches; The Brewery, on the site of the eighteenth-century Whitbread brewery, with the Porter Tun and King George III suites.
She also works in the City, at Canary Wharf, in Mayfair, Shoreditch, Kensington, Southwark, Greenwich, Richmond, Windsor and Cambridge.
Your questions, before booking
Can Giulia paint during a gala dinner in London?
Yes. She starts at the drinks reception, works through dinner and reveals the canvas at dessert or during the speech. At a gala she can come with Orlando at the piano: he plays, she paints, and if you want a theatrical effect she paints the canvas upside down and turns it round at the end. The show is quoted on request; the canvas of the evening starts at €900.
Can the guests write on the canvas?
Yes. Giulia paints the large canvas during the evening, the venue that welcomes you or your brand motif, and your guests write what they like on it: a word, a name, a signature. The work leaves with their hands on it, and the company keeps a unique piece, born of that evening. She keeps control of the composition so the result holds together. From €900.
Can the quote be issued in pounds?
Yes. Prices on the site are shown in euros, and Giulia issues the quote in whichever currency suits you, with an invoice in the company name. Travel and organisation are agreed together and written into the quote, which arrives within 48 hours.
How much does live painting cost for a company evening?
From €900 for a live performance, and the length is decided with you: twenty minutes during a speech, an hour at the drinks reception, or the whole evening. Portraits of your guests, sketched during the evening, start at €1,200. A large format or a full day starts at €2,400. Giulia Dal Bon sends a free quote within 48 hours, itemised line by line so it slots into a budget, with an invoice made out to the company.
What exactly does the company receive?
The canvas, signed, handed over the same evening, and the invoice made out to the company, itemised line by line. If you wish, Giulia also paints the company name or logo into the composition.
What happens to the painting after the evening?
It stays with the company. Many hang it in reception or in a meeting room: it is the trace of the evening, and everyone who was there recognises it. It can also be given to a departing director, handed to a client, auctioned for a charity, or drawn among the guests. Giulia signs it if you wish.
Can the logo or the brand colours go into the painting?
Yes. Giulia also studied graphic design at the Brera Academy: she draws the lettering by hand and builds the canvas around the company’s colours. The logo can appear painted, or stay out and let the palette speak. It is decided beforehand, on the two complimentary sketches, with your management or your agency.
Can the team take part?
Yes, and it works well at a seminar: everyone adds a brushstroke, or each team paints a section that Giulia then ties together. She keeps hold of the composition so the result stands up. Tell her how many people and how much time you have, and she adapts.
What does Giulia need on site?
A square of about two metres by two, a power socket and some light. She arrives with her easel, her canvases and her paints, protects the floor around her and leaves with her own equipment. The acrylic she uses dries fast, so the canvas leaves the same evening.
Where has Giulia already painted live?
At the Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan, for Play Green, she painted live alongside the illustrator Francesco Barcella, on a reclaimed wooden panel supplied by the Di Nuovo craftsmen. And on 6 July 2017, in Camaiore, for the fourteenth Festival Gaber, she painted under the Arco di Via Vittorio Emanuele beside the guitarist Gianni Martini. The links are on the Press page.