A customer bought this beautifully elegant painting from the Hope Gallery at Redbrick Mill. The painting was unframed, so Caroline (from Hope Gallery) came along and we discussed various frame styles and options, which she photographed and sent to her customer. Eventually they got the options down to two and the customer chose the same frame that we all loved too. We used this very stylish, linear barefaced moulding, which we hand painted in a rich, dark, antique oiled bronz

This beautiful antique lobster illustration was brought in for framing. We looked at different options and the customer selected this lovely dark blue/black moulding which works perfectly with the colours in the lobster. We then looked at various picture mounts including blues & greys which seemed the right choice, but somehow they were a little flat. We suggested a combination of gold & soft white picture mounts but the customer was a little apprehensive, but when we put eve

Just finished framing a set of beautiful seascapes for the artist Tori Tipton. Tori explores & observes the coastal environment which she carefully translates into her beautiful, atmospheric paintings, which capture the wildness of the seas and the weather, often from around the Yorkshire coastline. To see more of Tori's work, you can visit her at the Holmfirth Art Week, where she will be exhibiting, along with a group of ten artists & contemporary crafts people, who were all

Just finished framing these lovely summer landscapes, painted by Ann Parkin. They were inspired by peaceful aspects around the Yorkshire Sculpture Park on a sunny day 'en plein air' with the Tom Wood Workshops. There is something about these paintings which takes me straight back to warm summer days spent playing out as a child, with blue skies, tickling grasses on legs and warm dappled sunlight - Happy care free days. Ann's atmospheric paintings will be on sale in the Mark