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Guest Blog: Countdown to our Last Hurrah

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

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

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

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.

Is it Festival time yet?

Brighton Festival poster 1972

A couple of recent framing jobs serve to remind us of one of the many things we are desperately looking forward to sometime soon hopefully. Our customers obviously value the precious memories these prints evoke, memories that we have all desperately clung to through lock-down

Merry Christmas!

Merry Christmas!

Well, here we are at the end of the year. All the Christmas orders are complete and collected and the workshop is the emptiest it has been for many a month! Thank you to all our customers, whether long-standing or new, for your business throughout the year and for entrusting your special items to us; we hope we have left you delighted by the results.

Early Night shopping

Late Night Shopping 2

Ordinarily is not a word I ordinarily use, but this year definitely warrants its use, even twice in one sentence. Ordinarily, today being the first Friday in December, we would be hosting pop-up shops in Uckfield’s Late Night Shopping event. But not this year.

A walk on the wild side

bee display

One of the upsides of this pandemic has been the increase in our interest in wildlife. This is caused by many factors, for example the decrease in traffic both human and motor and the extra time we have had to observe nature and listen to the spring birdsong. We have had the pleasure of framing some wonderful paintings, drawings and photographs of many different aspects of nature, including these lovely images

Our pop-up shops

It’s that time of year again so we are getting out and about, hopefully we’ll see you tomorrow at the Uckfield College Christmas Indulgence fair. We’ll be there on Saturday from 12pm until 4pm, so come and say hi. Then next week we have this year’s Uckfield Late Night Shopping event next Friday 6th December from 5pm until 9pm. It should be a fun-filled evening so wrap up warm and get ready to follow the Artists and Makers’ Christmas Gift Trail sponsored by Uckfield Framing Company, at ‘pop up’ shops in four Uckfield High Street venues. Rowland Gorringe Estate Agents […]

To print or not to print..

framing in progress

Something I hadn’t really expected as I prepare for my first Art Wave exhibition, has been the re-discovery of what ignited my passion for photography all those years ago.. the printed image. Obvious perhaps, but maybe obscured over time and my pursuit of the new.. Digital. Where images are taken, manipulated and shared on screens big and small, in our hands, laps and desks but seldom on our walls.

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