Photo credit: Jonathan Canlas, Spring 2025
We’re Ash and Matthew—partners, artists, and the team behind Ultraviolet Backdrops.
What started as a shared love for color, texture, and process has become a creative business that’s taken us—and our work—around the world.
Every backdrop we make is hand-painted with care and intention in our Utah studios. Whether it’s a soft wash or a bold statement piece, the goal is the same: to add something unseen to the image, to the space, and to the creative process itself.
Ultraviolet Backdrops transform tight corners, uninspired studios, and wild environments into places of depth and possibility. That’s what keeps us going—the transformation, the connection, the work that comes from it.
We offer Ultraviolet as a creative prompts to support stylists, photographers, designers, and convention breakers around the world.
We offer rentals, sales, and commissions of hand-painted muslin, canvas, and found object backdrops available in a range of sizes.