Protect art and your interior from UV

There’s no doubt, allowing light to flood into our homes is uplifting. With more and more contemporary domestic properties being designed to bring the outside in, it’s clear it positively impacts our lives. But with every silver lining there is a cloud and ultraviolet (UV) is that cloud. It’s the most damaging element of [...]

By |2023-08-17T12:20:53+01:00July 19th, 2023|Help & Advice, Interest|0 Comments

What’s going on in the frame?

and why do harlequins often look so whimsical and sad? This poor little chap sure had reason to be. He’s an original design for a stained glass window from the 1960s and I was asked to reframe him. He arrived squashed in the original frame, much too small for his scale. The minute moulding [...]

By |2023-06-09T14:08:11+01:00June 9th, 2023|Help & Advice|0 Comments

Bespoke Versus Ready-made Picture Frames

Generally there are two options when considering framing a piece of work, bespoke or ready-made. The main difference between the two is that bespoke picture frames are designed and hand-made specifically to present your work at its best; ready-made frames are mass produced to standard sizes and of poorer quality materials. The decision of one [...]

By |2022-01-20T15:42:59+00:00January 20th, 2022|Help & Advice|0 Comments