Dr Whos
The client wanted something Dr Who related and this is what he got. I suggested the Tardis and the panels that typified police boxes and the client organised the printing to the Police Box after I had given him the size. Great fun.
Turkish Pashas
There were about 7 images in the same format going to a fine art fair and the client wanted them to create an impact.
Usually this client left a fairly specific brief but not on this occasion so I had a free hand. It was tricky assembling the tiny mitres particularly as it was not possible to cut them on the guillotine.
The then gilder was less than happy about gilding 7 of these but even he agreed they looked good, and thankfully so did the client!
Mann – North African Scene
Here I wanted to keep the calm feel of the scene and given the white walls I opted to go down that route and to put a common Islamic decorative motif in each corner.The deep scotia on the sight edge is there to keep the scale as large as possible
Carolyn Sergeant – Still Life
With so little on the board very little needed to be in the frame but it did need space. The frame is about as minimal you can get and all I added was the tiny bead round the outer edge which quietly brought the frame to a close.
Lord Northbourne – Chalkpits
The Late Lord Northbourne was an accomplished watercolourist and I am lucky enough to own two of his.
The essence of this frame is the outer edge wash (I was writing an article for the FATG on mount decoration at the time and I did the mount as an example), and the re-machining on the sight edge of the maple frame which sets the tone of the picture. The wash just focuses the eye into the picture and the details on the cliffs of the chalkpits.
Uzbekistani – Oil on Canvas
This is the same moulding as the Carolyn Sergeant frame but upside down and inside out. Simple.
Toby Ward
I saw this for the first time on Twitter and was struck by the floating rectangles. When my brother (for it was he dear readers) brought it in, we talked about that approach and he was happy to go with it.
The construction is the same as the William Wilkins but the idea was to break the surround into quadrilaterals with the white corners floating out. They do not quite touch the inner bend.