I know it might seem a bit early, but we just want to let everyone know that we are having an extended Christmas break this year and we would like to give everyone the chance to plan ahead if needed. We will be closed Tuesday 24th December 2019 and re-open on the Mond...

The lovely artist Helen Thomas came in with this beautifully delicate group of paintings which needed framing. Helen looks very carefully at the world around her and sees little, amazing, happenings that most of us never even notice or appreciate. She find beauty and a...

A lovely lady came in with this stunning print by the very talented landscape artist Ian Mitchell. It was a gift for her daughter who lives in Hull and she wanted a wide, warm grey and black mount combination and a simple black wooden frame. Coloured mounts can sometim...

The artist, Sam Swales Snowden came in with this beautiful watercolour painting that she wanted framing. Sam chose this very simple, silver and grey textured frame and a soft white and grey double mount combination, to create a soft tonal combination that comes togethe...

We bought this beautiful, handmade 'Flora & Fauna' tile from Lisa at Ellul Ceramics, whilst visiting the Saltaire Inspired art festival last May. Lisa presses plants into the clay to make her tiles look like fossils and on some pieces she adds delicate touches of 24 ca...

We bought this pretty little 'Winter Whippet' print by Angela Harding and wanted to frame it for our showroom, so we can show customers lots of different framing styles and ideas. We chose this wide black gloss moulding and used black and soft grey picture mounts, and...

A customer wanted this set of commemorative WW1 stamps framing. He wanted a slim black frame and we had a look at a few mount combinations and he chose a very smart deep khaki with a flash of deep rich red, which complements the red of the Queen's head, that is consist...

A lovely lady came in with a children's story book and explained that she used to read the book with her Mum when she was little. Sadly her Mum passed away but she found the book and decided that she would like to have it framed. An open book was something new for us,...

We have just finished framing a beautiful Coldstream Guards tunic. I have never been up close to one before, but the detail and tailoring is fascinating - the decorative buttons, the detail on the cuffs, the raw edges at the bottom of the tunic, the complex lining, the...

A customer came in with these two pretty little oil paintings that he bought in a charity shop. He wanted to replace the battered old frames with something much more contemporary and he chose this very stylish, highly iridescent, deep gold & beech moulding. He very muc...