Welcome to Henny Donovan Motif - unique designer stencils

The home of contemporary stencil design - all totally original designs from artist and designer Henny Donovan.

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Henny's stencils are ideal for today's interior decorating - up to the minute cutting edge design. Add quality designer touches to walls, panels, fabrics, floors, furniture and accessories. Henny's innovative trademark oversize designs are used worldwide by homeowners, interior designers, architects, production companies, shops, theatre companies and are featured extensively on television and in interior and lifestyle magazines around the world.

Our stencils are laser cut, from high-grade reusable Mylar and are straight forward and simple to use. Use with our brilliant range of waterbased Stencil Paints and useful equipment. The Motif website is the only outlet selling Henny's original stencils and paints. We ship to all worldwide destinations three times a week and offer a personable and helpful service. Scroll down for thumbnails of all products, click on picture icons to see each product page, packed with amazing images, inspirations, information and to buy online via our secure checkout and payment page. More information below. Delivery and despatch information below.

Stencil Gallery

 

 

 

Paints & Mediums

 

Equipment & Accessories

Books & Guides

 

About Henny Donovan Motif

Motif has been established to showcase and sell the range of exciting up to date stencils from artist, designer and author Henny Donovan. Henny's reputation as the most contemporary stencil designer has grown rapidly - "one of the most fashionable collections around is Motif" - says the Mail on Sunday. Henny's innovation in stencil design has done much to dispel the bad rep of 80's stencils, and her break-through signature range of oversize designs has brought the decorative possibilities of stencilling firmly into 21st century living and design.  The Motif website is the only outlet to purchase Henny's original stencils and stencil paints.

TV and press coverage

Motif stencils are regularly featured on UK TV and in UK and international interior design magazines. Henny's stencils have appeared on BBC DIY SOS, 60 Minute Makeover ITV1, Channel 4 and in numerous magazines and publications - such as The Sunday Times Magazine, Ideal Home, Homes & Gardens, Marie Claire, Eve Magazine, Country Living, House Beautiful, Period Living, Your Home, Living Etc, Perfect Homes, Channel 4 Homes magazines and the Italian Magazine, and in The Mail on Sunday, the Evening Standard Homes & Property, The Guardian, The Observer, as well as US Homes, and Cottages and Bungalows and many more.

The Stencils

Each one of our designer stencils is unique to this website and designed and produced by Henny Donovan. Henny's stencil designs are based on closely observed, original drawings, or historical archives. All our pre-cut stencils are precision cut by laser on high quality, durable 125 micron mylar (semi-transparent polyester film). Suitable for repeated usage and gentle washing. Stencils are supplied with usage instructions to get you started. Each stencil design has its own page on this site, with inspiring photographs/graphics and full description, so you'll see how the design works and get some decorating ideas too. Stencil dimensions (up to .5 of a centimetre and 1/4 of an inch) are also given in the Specifications section to help with your decorative planning.

Paint Range & Decorating Equipment

Henny's paint range has been designed for use with our stencils and our extensive palette of fantastic colours gives a really diverse range of choices for all schemes - go to Paint Range to view our 'Paint Box' showing all colours and types of paint. Motif also offers useful tools, materials and equipment for all interior decorators for perfect stencilling - go to Equipment Range to view all equipment and accessories.

Motif Art Gallery 

An exciting feature of the Motif website - our online Art Gallery - showcasing some of the work of artist and designer Henny Donovan. As well as Henny's extensive design work to create the stencils on sale throughout the Motif website, she has also created a series of original paintings, prints, drawings, photographs, stencil pieces, textile and gilded pieces, which are now for sale through our Art Gallery.To see the first of our online exhibitions exclusively featuring Henny Donovan's work go to Art Gallery.

Join the newsletter mailing list

Add yourself to our Mailing List to receive our newsletters about exciting new stencils as they come online. (Email addresses are kept private and never passed onto to any other party and our newsletter only comes out a few times a year - so we promise not to bug you!)

Motif deliveries - shipping worldwide 3 times a week

Motif despatches take place on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays weekly, unless otherwise notified - except on weeks with a Bank Holiday Monday when despatches are Tuesdays and Fridays. All orders are sent by first class Royal Mail to avoid the hassle of waiting for couriers. UK orders arrive 1- 2 working days after despatch, order by 12pm on day of despatch for next day delivery. European orders arrive 5 - 7 days after despatch. Orders to the USA arrive 7 - 10 business days after despatch. Orders to Australia and Asia arrive - 10 - 14 days after despatch. Individual confirmation of despatch date is emailed to customers Mon-Fri - this is not an automated reply, as we prefer to email customers personally to confirm exact despatch dates and any other relevant information specific to your order. Orders received before 12pm UK time on day of despatch will go out that day, orders received after that time will go out in the next despatch.

Purchasing and shipping information:

When you shop with Motif online your order will be processed in complete safety through our secure payment page. Our shopping cart works out shipping to all worldwide and UK destinations. Prices are in UK pounds sterling and there are currency converter links to check dollar conversions etc throughout the site. Enter your destination in the shopping cart to calculate shipping for chosen products and use the currency converter links to check currency conversions and dollar prices

Postage and shipping - is calculated on the weight of the item/s that you buy as well as the delivery destination - see our Information and Enquiries page for a breakdown of weight categories and costs. Small stencils are packaged in firm backed envelopes. All other stencil designs are packaged in robust and attractive silver tubes, making our stencils an attractive gift option. Larger orders of paints, equipment and books may be individually packed for safe and best transportation to all destinations.

Stockists

All Henny Donovan designs and paints are unique to Motif and currently the Motif product range is only available through this website on a mail order basis - you can order through the shopping cart or over the phone on +44 (0) 20 8340 0259.  We ship to all worldwide destinations three times a week.

Trade Enquiries

For trade enquiries from stockists/retail outlets and enquiries from interior decorators about our discount scheme, please use the Enquiries Form on the Information and Enquiries page, including information about your company.

Bespoke Stencil Design

We are not currently offering our bespoke design service. For artisan and specialist art projects please contact us through our enquiries form.  We do not design or cut alphabet, logos and 'sayings' stencils.

Brochure Enquiries

All of our stencils are now illustrated extensively online with a fully detailed stencil page for each design. Use the Stencil Gallery on this page to view all stencils and click through to their relevant pages for more images and information. Sign onto our mailing list for news of stencil updates and new products.

Motif Copyright

All Motif stencils, stencil designs, photographic and graphic images are protected by copyright and reproduction is strictly prohibited. Henny Donovan stencils are sold for private usage only and may not be used for commercial projects or retail reproduction, or for any kind of resale or reproduction of stencilled images either photographically or for marketing, advertising or publishing of any kind. The stencil and graphic images on this website may not be used or reproduced for any kind of logo, letterhead, website illustration, advertising or other, either personally or commercially.  If you have any queries relating to copyright or usage of Henny Donovan designs please use the enquiries form on the Information and Enquiries page.