Frame & Canvas has been cutting, joining, and fitting frames by hand since 2011. Every piece that comes through the door gets the same unhurried attention, whether it is a child's first drawing or a signed lithograph.
Identity, conservation mounting, and a hand-joined oak frame for a client's inherited 1952 Ordnance Survey sheet. This is the kind of work we do every week.
Miriam Holt opened Frame & Canvas in the spring of 2011 in a narrow unit on Caldwell Street, with a second-hand Morso guillotine, a Fletcher glass cutter, and a waiting list of three people who had heard about her from a local gallery. She had spent the previous eight years working at a framing department inside a large art supply chain, which taught her the volume side of the trade but left her frustrated by the corners that got cut when a job had to be turned around in forty-eight hours. The shop on Caldwell Street was a deliberate move in the opposite direction.
Our products
Moulding cut on the day your job is booked, not from pre-cut stock
Acid-free Artcare mountboard used on every single job, not just conservation requests
Theo Papadakis has handled conservation mounting in-house since 2013
We stock three types of glass and will tell you honestly which one you need
Recent work
I brought in a map my grandfather had drawn by hand in 1948. Miriam spent twenty minutes just looking at it before she suggested anything. The finished frame is exactly right.
“I brought in a map my grandfather had drawn by hand in 1948. Miriam spent twenty minutes just looking at it before she suggested anything. The finished frame is exactly right.”
— David R., Regular client
The glass sitting in front of your artwork is doing more work than most people realise. It is the first thing a viewer's eye encounters, and the wrong choice will dull a photograph, wash out a watercolour in reflected ceiling light, or allow UV radiation to quietly bleach pigment over the course of a decade. At Frame and Canvas we have glazed everything from family snapshots to limited-edition prints for collectors, and the question we are asked most consistently is a simple one: which glass should I use? The answer depends on three things — what you are framing, where it will hang, and how much you want to spend. This guide works through each glazing option honestly, with the tradeoffs named plainly.
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Answer three questions and we will point you toward the right service and glass type for your piece. Takes about a minute.