Picture Framing First Floor Gallery Romsey

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Picture Framing Studio

Guild Certified Framer: ensuring high quality standards in picture framing.

Guild Certified Framer: ensuring high quality standards in picture framing.

Let's say that you've just bought an original piece of art from an artist, a photographer or an art gallery and now you want to have it framed. Or you have several artworks from your last holiday that need to go on your walls. Perhaps you are an artist with a forthcoming exhibition or an art sale. Probably the first thing you do is to find a framing shop near you on search engines. So there you are: plenty of choices on the screen and decisions to be made. Whether you are on

Framing my picture: shall I have it mounted?

Framing my picture: shall I have it mounted?

So one of the many decisions to be taken when bringing your artwork to a framing shop is whether to have it mounted or not. There are technical details to be taken into consideration of course but the main aspects are the type of artwork and what look you are trying to achieve. One of the technicalities that art framers consider when using a mount is to keep a gap between the glass and the artwork. This will avoid the work getting stacked to the glass in the case of a print o

"Colour is stronger than language. It's a subliminal communication". Louise Bourgeois

"Colour is stronger than language. It's a subliminal communication". Louise Bourgeois

Colour is a powerful communication tool. Red indicates passion and emotion; yellow reveals positive aspects; orange combines the energy of red and the happiness of yellow and so on. There exist many books and publications about theory of colour, composition, colour meanings and even colour therapy. Not very often we realise that the bright blue t-shirt we are wearing on is sending a subliminal message about our mood today the same way that Andy Warhol was talking to us when h

Glossy black for statement art

Glossy black for statement art

Large and extra large pieces of art are always a pleasure to be seen up on the wall. Scale makes the difference to the message and to the way people perceives art. Contemporary art is commonly made on large supports of all sorts and abstract and conceptual artworks can be so rich in contents that a minimalist frame will avoid distraction from the content. Glossy big black frames with a white slip are great to underline abstract art like "Fire & Water (St. John's night)" by ar

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