Metallic Frames

 

A couple of metal fronted frames in today, one silver, one bronze. You can't really see that well in this photo, but the sides and inner lip on these frames are black, which stops the metal being too 'bling' :-)

 

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Sam Toft print

 

Framing up a really great print by Sam Toft today, love her work so it's great to have something in to take a closer look at. We've gone for a simple grey frame to echo some of the sky colour and really allow the other colours to glow :-)

 

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Getting ready...

 

Getting everything ready for my painting day at the SOTA gallery in Witney tomorrow. I'll be painting between 10 and 4.30 so pop in and say hi if you can :-) please note, The Cuckoo's nest will be closed for the day...we'll be open as normal from 10 o'clock Saturday :-)

 

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One of my paintings framed

 

This is one of my paintings that I've framed in a dark wooden tray with a waxed oak frame. It's on show at the SOTA gallery in Witney currently and I'll be in there this Friday doing a painting demonstration on a similar portrait :-) call in and say hi if you're in the area :-)

 

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A very large frame...

 

Working on a very large oak frame today...had lots of fun cutting the glass for this piece ;-)

 

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Prints

 

A couple of lovely prints among the things being framed today....

 

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Happy New Year

Hello, a somewhat belated Happy New year !

I've been rebuilding the framing workshop this month, so no posts here and not very many frames built. However, that's all finished now and we've made space for a lot more framing!

I'll post some of the work we did as Christmas presents over the next couple of weeks. 2013 is going to be a very exciting year, with more expansion to the studio and some interesting framing and painting projects ahead, so I hope you'll stay tuned :-)

Here's one of the Christmas jobs. A wonderful print by David Hockney (my favourite). We used a simple purple frame, echoing the colours in the artwork. The end result was stunning...wish it was hanging on my wall :-)

 

 

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