A studio for the words you keep
Some words deserve to become art.
Bring your wedding vows, a letter, or the story only you can tell. We compose it into an original piece of poetry and symbolic artwork — set in real typography, finished by a poet, made to be framed.
What arrives
Nell, I wrote these on the back of a parking ticket outside your mum's place, so bear with me. I promise to keep leaving the last mandarin for you, even though you always say you don't want it, and always eat it. …
What leaves the studio
The first anniversary is paper. Your vows, made permanent.
Bring your vowsFrom the studio
Every piece begins as someone’s real story
Vows written on a parking ticket, framed for a first anniversary.
Forty years told through the letterbox their letters came through.
For a mother remembered by the coastline she swam every morning.
Portfolio pieces from the founder’s studio are shown while the first commissions are completed and photographed.
The house styles
A hand you’ll recognise across a room
The Keepsake
Refined pen-and-ink. Fine hatching, quiet, archival — drawn from a decade of the founder’s illustration work.
The Meadow
Soft botanical watercolour, light-filled. Arriving later this year.
The Echo
Atmospheric charcoal, tonal, cinematic. Arriving later this year.
How it works
Four steps, none of them hard
- 1
Bring your words, or tell your story
Paste your vows, a letter, a speech — or sit for a short interview and we'll write with you. A few minutes, one question at a time.
- 2
We compose the piece
Your words are set in real typography and matched with symbolic artwork drawn from your story — the places and objects where the memory actually lives. Never a stranger's idea of romance.
- 3
You approve the preview
See the full design before paying a cent. Ask for changes. Nothing is final until you love it.
- 4
Finished by hand, delivered
Every piece is reviewed and finished by the founder — a published poet and illustrator — then delivered as a high-resolution file, with fine-art prints and framing if you'd like them.
Honest pricing
The preview is free. Always.
The digital piece
A$49
High-resolution files ready to print anywhere, plus your private Reveal Page to give as a gift.
The print
A$79 / A$99
A4 or A3 on archival fine-art paper, shipped to your door. The digital piece is always included.
Framed
from A$169
Framed A3, ready to hang. The digital piece is always included.
Prices in Australian dollars. Delivery estimates shown before you pay — no surprises at checkout.
Our guarantee
Love your piece, or we’ll rework it with you free. If you still don’t love it, don’t buy it — your preview costs nothing. If a print arrives damaged or wrong, we replace it, no questions.
Privacy, in plain words
The words and stories you share here are intimate, and we treat them that way. They are used only to make your piece — never to train anything, never for marketing without your explicit permission. Everything is deleted from our storage 30 days after your piece is delivered, or immediately if you ask.
Questions, answered plainly
+Is this made by AI?
It's made with you, in this studio. We use modern writing and drawing tools inside a pipeline we built, under strict craft rules — and every purchased piece is personally reviewed and finished by the founder, a published poet and working illustrator, before it reaches you. Your piece is built only from the details you give us; nothing generic is padded in.
+What if I don't like it?
Then you don't pay. The preview is free, and revisions are part of the sitting. Once purchased: love your piece, or we rework it with you free.
+Can you draw the two of us?
We don't draw faces — deliberately. Our artwork is the world of the relationship: the kitchen table, the coastline, the letterbox the letters came through. It's where memory actually lives, and it will still look right in forty years.
+Is this suitable for someone I've lost?
Yes. Memorial pieces are some of the most important work we do, and the whole studio slows down for them — gentler questions, no rush, nothing salesy. Take whatever time you need.
+What happens to my words and photos?
They're used to make your piece and nothing else. Never for training, never for marketing without your explicit permission, deleted from our storage 30 days after delivery — immediately if you ask.
+How long does it take?
Your preview appears in about a minute. Digital pieces are delivered the same day after the founder's review. Prints ship on archival fine-art paper within the week.
Begin with the words you already have.
The preview is free, takes a few minutes, and belongs to no one but you.