The Framers Forum

Membership Manager Samantha Marshall has moved on to a new career and we are delighted to welcome Jaime Robinson to the Guild team in her role as Membership Secretary. For any queries about Guild membership, her email is jaime@fineart.co.uk or call her on 020 7381 6616. If you are, or have been, a m...

Unmissable Opportunity! Venue: Slater Harrison & Co, Lowerhouse Mills, Bollington, Macclesfield, Cheshire SK10 5HW Slater Harrison, makers of Colourmount, have kindly offered to host a North West Branch Event at their mill in Bollington, near Macclesfield. Paul Bowden and Irene McIver of the Sl...

Venue: The Lodge At Leeming Bar, Great North Road, Bedale, North Yorkshire DL8 1DT (just off the A1) 7.00pm for 7.30 start All Fine Art Trade Guild members and friends in the North of Endland, both new and old, are invited to join us for the next NE branch gathering on Tuesday 18th October. Our regu...

To be held on Tuesday 18 October 2011 from 6pm for 7pm start Venue: The Grosvenor Hotel, High Street, Stockbridge SO20 6EU in the centre of Stockbridge, opposite the Police Station. http://www.oldenglishinns.co.uk/stockbridge/index.php What an Artist Wants (really, really wants....) from a Framer an...

Before I came to the Fine Art Trade Guild, and even before I was a glass blower, I trained as a ceramicist. Without seeing the actual tile it's hard to be certain, but I think what you're looking at here are the spaces where the maker has wiped off the glaze so that the tile doesn't stick to the kil...

Lion does supply Germany On our database we have the following (not Guild members) http://www.ams-trading.de/EnglishPage/index.htm http://www.boesner.com (mainly art supplies but some framing) http://www.framecraft.eu http://www.mittermeier-rahmen.de For conservation materials http://www.klug-conser...

Thanks Mark

Lets's hope more volunteers come forward to organise events in all regions - if we have a couple of people per region they only need organise one event a year each AND we could get the geographic spread across the regions

BUT the Guild has acknowledged this problem and has made changes to its branch structure to allow for more than one organiser per region as per my post There is room under the new branch structure to have more than one Regional Organiser in a Branch - if there is a Guild member reading this who woul...

I've been watching this thread with great interest - thanks Rolf for starting it off. I will see what I can do to provide at least some of what you need at Spring Fair seminars and our own Meet Learn Celebrate event, which will be on 13th and 14th May (Sunday and Monday) 2012 in Elstree (just off A1...

For as long as I've worked at the Guild the Cotwolds Branch has included Berkshire, Gloucestershire and Oxfordshire . The fact that meetings were almost exclusively in Gloucestershire in the past was down to the location of the Branch Masters at that time and didn't always suit other Cotwolds member...

The Cotswolds branch of the Fine Art Trade Guild will be holding its next Branch Meeting on Thursday 22nd September 2011 . The proceedings will begin from 6.30 pm with a speaker start time of 7 pm and the venue is the meeting room upstairs at ‘The Bull At Theale’ http://thebullattheale.co.uk/ | 41 H...

The next meeting of the West Midlands Branch will take place on Thursday 8th September 2011 at Bevere Gallery, Bevere Lane Bevere Worcester, WR3 7RQ at 7pm Bevere Gallery, near Worcester, have kindly volunteered to host and give us an insight into how they manage their Gallery, Framing Workshop and ...

The next Wessex Branch Event will be held on Tuesday 16 August, from 6pm for 7pm start, at The Grosvenor Hotel, High Street, Stockbridge, Hampshire SO20 6EU. Canvases – from start to finish The meeting will be on the subject of stretching, framing, varnishing and cleaning canvases. We are delighted ...

I'd echo that Steve - great day, good turnout, nice lunch, pain to find, but now we know it'll be easier next time...

Thanks Garry, Ashley and Wessex team for making us so welcome.

Louise

Before I joined the Guild I was a glass maker and ceramicist; all somewhat hazy in the mists of time but I'll try to help. Provided the design is properly fired onto the tile then it will become part of the glaze and should last as long as the tile does. I think the longevity and quality is more to ...

I'll be going to represent the Guild.

Look forward to seeing you Steve and meeting FF members...

Louise

Hi Lida and welcome

This is a subject we have covered in articles in Art Business Today magazine, where we have given case studies from the framers in question on 'how I did it'.

Email me and I can send you some pdfs

(PS did we meet at Milan ArtExpo?)
Louise

To be held on Wednesday 14th July 2011, from 7pm for 7.30pm at The Reigate Manor Hotel, Reigate Hill, Surrey RH2 9PF. Tel: 01737 240125 Come along to the next Fine Art Trade Guild London Branch Event on Thursday 14th July for food, drinks and networking with your fellow professionals! It will be hel...

Simples

If you have a franking machine and get your mail collected in pouches it gets priority sorting - if you stick it in a pillar box with a stamp on it goes in with all the other mail - one week for first class is outrageous though.

Well, as I'd already booked my travel I went anyway and had a fascinating private tour of Slater Harrison's mill - thank you Brian for that :D. I can't understand why anyone in our industry wouldn't be interested in finding out more about one of our fundamental materials! We will be scheduling anoth...