Thursday 14th November sees the annual Central St Martins art auction at the Lethaby gallery and will raise funds for the Postgraduate Fine Art Programme degree show. Picture has supported the event again this year by framing nine pieces for the live auction including works by Sandra Blow, Alison Wilding, Sarah Wigglesworth, Karen Knorr, Rodney …
Hello My Name Is Paul Smith opens next week! Step inside the iconic designer’s mind-boggling world. Opening this Friday 15th November and continuing until 9th March 2014, at The Design Museum We finished a batch of frames for this show last week but it will be the frames from the Paul Smith archive that are …
Picture is running a Nativity Art Competition for local primary schools during the Winter 2013 term. It’s the perfect opportunity for children to showcase their creative side plus, by entering, they stand a chance of getting their picture framed and included in Picture’s Christmas Exhibition. Win £500 of art materials for your school. The Schools …
First ever showing of Ian Dury: More Than Fair pop art exhibition at RCA Kensington (now until 1 Sept). Great friend and influenced by Sir Peter Blake, show curated by daughter Jemima Dury – worth a visit. http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1996276438/ian-dury-more-than-fair-art-exhibition
This year marks the 80th Anniversary since Babar the Elephant books were first published in the UK and to date, the Babar stories have been translated into 17 languages and over 12 million copies of the books have been sold worldwide. We’ve got a collection of six Babar prints that are great for children’s bedrooms …
Going on a Bear Hunt Live opens for its West End Summer Season at the Lyric Theatre Shaftsbury Avenue tomorrow (through to 1 September) http://www.bearhuntlive.com/about-the-show.htm And we’ve got limited edition Helen Oxenbury prints in stock – four different images to choose from. What a beautiful day!
Had this vibrant Tom Hammick limited edition print in for framing (laid on to museum ivory mount framed in a box shaped clear waxed beech with recessing spacers and UV protective glass). Tom is primarily a painter and printmaker but is also Senior Lecturer in Fine Art Painting and Printmaking at The University of Brighton.
Just framed a couple of Fiona Rae prints (solid white box frames with recessing spacers and UV glass). Described as ‘a Jackson Pollock for the digital age’ her work challenges the modern convention of painting. Current exhibition at Towner museum in Eastbourne (until 23 June). Fiona Rae: Maybe you can live on the moon in …
Trooping of the Colour tomorrow in London for The Queen’s Official Birthday – at Picture we are celebrating with our very own original 1953 diorama of the Coronation in oak box frame. Part of our Royal gallery display for June and July.
Carla – part of the Picture team – has two pictures in this year’s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition (10 June – 18 August 2013) http://www.royalacademy.org.uk/exhibitions/summer/ Beautiful charcoal drawings of trees – one large scale and the other a smaller version. As Carla says “drawing with charcoal on such a large scale is a very physical …