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A Noteworthy Collection

By Uckfield Framing | Published March 25, 2024
Bank Notes

We recently had cause to learn that the name for a person who collects bank notes is “notaphilist” because, armed with his collection, a notaphilist brought his set of 40 notes in to us to be framed. These notes have been gathered from around the world, many being brought home following a visit to the various countries.  The customer wanted them set out in alphabetical country order and so provided the concept of how the layout should look. The sizes of the notes are slightly different which added to the challenge, but Laura carefully laid them all out and lined […]

Marathon Majors

By Uckfield Framing | Published July 6, 2023
Marathon Majors medal framing

The World Marathon Majors are a championship-style competition for marathon runners over six major cities across the world. Each Marathon earns you a medal and if you can complete all six, you earn the prestigious six-star finisher medal. We have made a few displays of these medals over the years using our standard design, which you can read about here, but the most recent one required a bit of head-scratching before we could complete it. The medal ribbons are usually folded to minimise the display size, and hence cost. However, this customer requested that the full extent of the lettering […]

The Art of Linocut

By Uckfield Framing | Published May 1, 2023
Reductive Linocut by Joshua Miles of a Harbour

We were recently brought a series of Linocuts in to be framed: the work of printmaker Joshua Miles, who creates his artwork primarily using reduction block printmaking. Joshua is also a landscape artist, inspired by the play of light on the landscape which leads him to explore his local areas. He spends part of the year in South Africa, and part in Kirkcudbright, Scotland, with his art spanning the two, quite different, countries. The picture with the boats dried out in a harbour, is a reductive linocut, which means parts of the lino are cut away between each colour impression. […]

Success!

By Uckfield Framing | Published August 12, 2022

We are delighted to announce that we have finally found the perfect replacement tutor for our woodwork classes. James Harmsworth-Dayman, a good friend of Tim’s, recently and very fortuitously became available to take over these long running classes. Tim Benians, who has been teaching these courses for the last forty years, is very excited saying ‘at last my students will get a proper experienced woodwork teacher!’ James has made a career of designing and making high-end furniture and carpentry projects. I’m sure he will tell you more about that in due course. Handover of the classes will begin from the […]

Wanted: Woodwork Tutor

By Uckfield Framing | Published June 9, 2022

Many of you will know that we have been running woodwork evening classes here in our own workshop at Uckfield Framing Company for many years. They began at Ringmer School back in the early eighties, and are still going as strong as ever, with a considerable waiting list of those wishing to join. There is already a lot of information published about these classes, such as what is produced, and what beginners might expect, but now we would like to find a keen woodworker willing to take these classes forward into the future as our long term class tutor Tim […]

Guest Blog: Countdown to our Last Hurrah

By Uckfield Framing | Published May 31, 2022

With around a month to go, I’m happy that everything is coming together nicely for our ‘Last Hurrah’ art fair. Over 40 artists and makers are signed up, and our publicity machine is picking up pace. It certainly helps that I’ve retired from the framing business, as the last few weeks have been pretty full time on this project. I am very ably assisted by Natalie, who has been equally busy as she is also a participating exhibitor. She has been using all her considerable organisational skills to great effect behind the scenes. The third member of my A-team (A […]

Supporting Uckfield Grasshoppers

By Uckfield Framing | Published May 13, 2022

We frame plenty of signed sports shirts here at Uckfield Framing Company, but this one is a bit special. Not only is it signed by all of the Brighton Ladies team, but this one is up for grabs here in Uckfield by the Uckfield Grasshoppers at their Sussex Sixes Tournament, starting this weekend. It will be a much sought-after prize in their raffle and a must for all local fans! They left the prized sports shirt with us to frame as we saw fit, so mounted it against an onyx black background with black frame. We then added in the […]

One Last Hurrah

By Uckfield Framing | Published April 18, 2022
Customers browsing art at Uckfield Civic Centre

Many of you will recall that I and a few like minded folk started what was then the Uckfield Art Trail, back in the heady days of 2005. It became the ‘visual arts’ part of the Uckfield Festival, already an established event in the town’s diary encompassing dance, theatre and music. And back then it was a real trail with 100 or so artists scattered over 25 venues around the countryside. Quite an undertaking to get round to see everyone as I recall, even for an organiser like me! This annual event evolved over subsequent years, eventually bringing everyone under […]

A welcome return to classes

By Uckfield Framing | Published August 3, 2021

last year. We held one of our popular Beginners classes in July, as well as our first ever Advanced group. The latter was a full day of techniques ranging from canvas stretching and sports shirt framing, to hand finishing and complex mount cutting.

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