Our Story

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border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: 1px solid #2A2620; } .ab-split-img.left { order: -1; border-bottom: 1px solid #2A2620; border-right: none; } .ab-split-text { padding: 60px 32px; } .ab-inner { padding: 72px 30px; } .ab-heading { font-size: 34px; } .ab-p { font-size: 16px; } .ab-tagline { font-size: 36px; } .ab-quote { font-size: 26px; } .ab-full-img { height: 300px; } .ab-studios { padding: 64px 28px; } .ab-studios-grid { grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr); gap: 24px 0; } .ab-studio { border-left: none; } .ab-studio:nth-child(odd) { border-right: 1px solid #2A2620; } .ab-studio-country { min-height: 0; } } Our Story Some Walls Deserve More Than Decoration The Zeydrt Story 01 — Origin It Started With Someone I Loved Years ago, before Zeydrt existed, art wasn’t a business to me. It was something personal. I still remember the first oil painting I ever truly noticed. It wasn’t in a gallery. It wasn’t famous. It was hanging quietly in the home of someone I loved. It wasn’t something people talked about. But it was always there . Hanging quietly on the wall, watching over everyday life. Morning light passing across its surface. Evening shadows resting gently on its texture. At the time, I didn’t think much about it. Not yet. 02 — Loss When Something Is Gone, You Notice What Stayed One day, life changed in a way I didn’t expect. Not suddenly. Not dramatically. Just quietly. That person I loved… was no longer there. It felt like a piece of them was still in the room. That was the moment I truly understood what art could mean to a home. Not decoration. Presence. 03 — Purpose The Beginning of Zeydrt Years later, homes became more modern. Spaces became more carefully designed. Prints were everywhere — many looked perfect at first glance. Sharp lines. Clean colors. But they felt temporary. Replaceable. Forgettable. Because they were. A print has no memory. No gesture. No moment of hesitation or confidence from a human hand. When you look closely at a printed canvas, there is nothing to discover — it is the same at every angle, in every light. A hand-painted oil painting is different. Every brushstroke is a decision. The texture catches light differently at 8am than it does at dusk. The impasto ridges — paint built up thick and deliberate — cast real shadows. It changes as your home changes. It lives. The one that stayed. The one that mattered. That was when Zeydrt began. Not as a company. But as a belief. That art should mean something. 04 — Conviction The Hardest Part Was Believing It Still Mattered Starting Zeydrt wasn’t easy. Finding artists who still painted entirely by hand… Convincing them their work still had a place in the world… Choosing to move slowly in a world that rewards fast… There were moments of doubt. But every time I thought about giving up, I remembered that painting. The one that stayed. And I kept going. 05 — Today Why We Still Do This Today Today, Zeydrt paintings hang in homes I have never visited. In rooms I have never seen. On walls that will witness birthdays… family dinners… quiet Sunday mornings… unexpected goodbyes… And years from now, when someone walks past one of those paintings — maybe they will pause for a moment. A person. A moment. A feeling. Not because the painting is loud. But because it stayed. Our Studios A Quiet Network of Hands China Studio United States Studio United Kingdom Studio Canada Studio “Not Just What You Hang — But What Stays.” Zeydrt · Hand-Painted Oil Paintings Lewis Founder, Zeydrt Originally from China, I started Zeydrt to bring the permanence of hand-painted oil paintings — created by independent artists across our studios in China, the United States, the United Kingdom, and Canada — into homes throughout North America. Every piece we carry is painted by hand. Nothing is printed. Nothing is replicated.