They hold Bill Murray in very high regard (which is never a bad thing) and created their own mashup of Shepard Fairey's 'Hope' and 'Obey' posters to create a Bill Murray 'Laugh' print, despite many failed attempts to purchase a print I opted to create my own canvas of the piece with stencils and spray-paint.

They have also got their own take on the 'Keep Calm' signs, which are insanely popular on their t-shirts and sell out in minutes.

I decided to make my own canvas version of this as well, so thought I'd stick down the steps here if you were feeling creative.

What you will need:

Cutting Implement - I Use an Xacto handle with no.11 blades

Cutting Mat - Saves your surfaces suffering slices

Card - I Use 210gsm card

Paint - I'm using 'Valley Green' Montana Hardcore (gloss) and White MTN94 (Matt)

Mask - Safety First

Patience - It may take some time to cut

Weights - I use coins to weigh down the stencil, others use spray mount glue, but coins, nuts and bolts work for me

Step 1 - Spray your canvas background

Step 2 - Get Cutting

While that's drying you can get to the cutting mat, print out the chosen lettering/logo either directly onto card (if you have a nice large printer) or print onto paper and stick onto your card...Cut out letters (Make sure you keep the 'islands' which are the insides of the letters, you'll need them later)

The crown logo also needs the inside details cutting out, so that detail can be added.

Step 3 - Admire your stencil creation, place against a dark background to see how it will look, if you've gone wrong there's nothing that a piece of masking tape and a recut can't fix.

Step 4 - Prep for spraying

Line up stencil on canvas, weigh down edges of each letter to reduce underspray and cover any part of the canvas that you don't want to paint, to reduce overspray.

Place islands back inside relevant letters and weigh down.

Step 5 - Spray Away

Shake can for at least 1 minute.

For best results hold can about 12 inches away from canvas and spray sparingly, better to do several light layers and leave a few minutes in between to dry rather than clagging it up and risking seepage.

Step 6 - Remove stencil to see how it's gone

Step 7 - Once Dry place back the crown logo that was previously cut, to add the detail with the green paint.

Step 8 - Stick on a wall and feel like you've created something

Step 9 - KCCO!

For those who don’t know, Thornbridge are a local brewery and creators of very fine ales indeed, not to mention having an inspirational business model based on

‘Innovation. Passion. Knowledge’ their annual garden party is an open house at the magnificent ‘Thornbridge Hall’ near Bakewell in Derbyshire (see flyer below)

 So if you’re in the Derbyshire area on 1^st July, fancy a beer and some discounted handmade artwork then head over and say hello.