About

A design led personalised art house.

People take thousands of photographs. The ones that matter most stay buried in a camera roll. VELLO exists to get one of them onto a wall.

What we do

You start with a photograph that already matters. The studio makes your Vello in up to three styles, you pick one, a person checks it against your original, and we make it to order for your wall.

The technology is infrastructure. The product is a Vello, which is why this site talks about paper, scale and framing, and never about models and prompts.

Vello #001: a couple in a mirror selfie, interpreted as a warm impasto artwork on a pale pink ground

A look you will recognise

The Vello look is a modern impressionist interpretation: broad palette knife gestures, softened detail, a warm editorial ground. Recognisable, never photorealistic. We preserve pose, hand placement, clothing silhouette and the relationship between the people in the picture. We simplify backgrounds rather than invent them, and we never add objects or change what happened in the photograph.

Every style on offer is a piece the studio has already made. The test is someone seeing your Vello on a wall and saying: that looks like a Vello.

A person looks at every artwork

You see your Vello and choose it before you pay. Then, before anything is printed, a person compares it with your original photograph: likeness, hands, eyes, composition, background, colour and the signature.

A Vello is not hand painted. We will never say it is. The provenance is authentic: made exclusively from your moment, documented by Vello, carrying a Vello ID that ties your order, your source photograph, the final master and every future copy together.

Where we are

Barcelona. Artworks are made to order and shipped from here. If you want to ask us something before you order, write to hello@madebyvello.art and a person will answer.