We are proud to launch the latest evolution of our gallery: a purpose built exhibition space that will enable a rolling exhibition programme throughout the year with Peter Blake: Three Decades in Print. The exhibition will feature a comprehensive selection of over 70 of Blake’s printed works ranging from iconic pop art pieces to his
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Barbara Rae CBE RA is a highly acclaimed painter and printmaker, her abstract works affirm her incredible gift as a colourist. Her works are often inspired by specific places which she uses as departure points for a flight of colour and sweeping compositions. Rae uses washes of bold colour; merging form, line and hue into each other with dynamic
Read MoreInteresting framing orders.
We’ve had some very interesting bespoke framing orders in at the moment: The framed piece above is a German scroll that was used in schools for teaching purposes and is about 50 years old. It has to be up this way at all times as the scroll is held in place by hooks, so if
Read MoreFor Arts Sake installation – Swadlincote.
The latest installation job from the For Arts Sake team was a trip down to Swadlincote Prezzo which is quite close to Burton upon Trent in the midlands. For these pictures a double frame was used and as you can see it really brings out the artwork, as well as this, the team was able
Read MoreA very big order!
It’s not everyday we get bespoke orders of this size! This measures at about 6 foot high by 4 foot wide. The artwork was framed by milling a sub frame and combining it to another frame to accommodate it. It has CCUV scratch resistant acrylic, which is raised off the artwork with a fillet as
Read MoreFor Arts Sake installation – Nespresso -Regent Street & Knightsbridge.
Our latest installation job was a fairly new client of ours in the form Nespresso, who specialize in exclusive espresso machines. It was a crisp morning just off Regent Street in central London where we went into Nespresso’s flagship retail shop to install 12 pictures of theirs which we had printed off for them as
Read MoreNew framing ticket.
Our new look framing ticket has been updated with our social network icons!
Read MoreFeatured printmaker at For Arts Sake – Clare Halifax
One of our newest printmakers to the gallery is Clare Halifax. She creates very intricate prints of nostalgic reminisces of buildings and places of interest that surround her. We’ve added a page for her on our website if you’d like to go there and check out her work, for an even closer look come along
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For Arts Sake latest exhibition ‘Celebrate London 2012’ is an exhibition of prints by Gail Brodholt, Paul Catherall, John Duffin, Barry Goodman, Martin Grover, Clare Halifax, Jennie Ing and Peter Wareham.
Read MoreFor Art Sake installation – Prezzo – Street.
Earlier in the week we drove down to Street in Somerset to hang a couple of pictures in a brand new Prezzo. On the way down our spirits were dampened by the elements (pun intended), the traffic and even our Sat-nav was against us! Took us about 3 and a half hours to get down
Read MoreFor Arts Sake installation – Prezzo – Colchester.
Our latest adventure took us down the lovely town of Colchester, which claims to be the oldest town in Britain! There’s still quite a lot of evidence of it’s Roman roots, around town and actually in the Prezzo where we were installing pictures. We got to Colchester nice early (making a habit of this!) so settled down for
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