WORKS IN WATERCOLOUR - FRAMING SERVICES

Works In Watercolour offers a framing service to clients purchasing our original and reproduction works. Almost all images displayed in Selah Gallery have been framed in our studios. 

We stand by our reputation for framing excellence. All work is completed to a professional standard that you can expect to protect your investment for many, many years.

Though we take pleasure in framing really well, our facility is modest. Currently we work only with paper based images: photographs, prints and paintings. There are other framers in this small area whose business might well include 3-D, canvas, artefact and other framing requests. 

Feedback: “I put forward three images for framing - important pictures for us. I asked Russell to frame according to what he thought would best bring out the colours, then left him to it. I am very, very impressed with the result. His choices and the quality of the framing have given superb results.”
Rowan Feron, April 2017

FRAMING ROOMS

Our framing room is also our art studio. Yes, it's a BIG room.

You'll find us at the end of the long corridor in here:

Samuel Saltzmann Building
En Hakkore
207 Orangapai Sanatorium Road
Orangapai, Otago, 9398
NEW ZEALAND

(Same building as the Selah Gallery)

We're not there all the time so if you need to see us, it's best to ring. (See Contacts.)

WHEN YOU BUY A FRAMED WORK FROM US

Our paintings works are usually framed 5 days after completion. The delay is to ensure there is NO moisture content in the papers used. They are released from easel fastenings/tapes within 48 hours and are held in a rudimentary but efficient press for complete flattening, using blotting and tissue papers to absorb any residual moisture. 

All framed works are processed with exacting standards. We use conservation materials, most of which are sourced from one of NZ's major framing suppliers, Larson Juhl.

Our staff have been trained and are disciplined in ensuring the items to be framed are kept scrupulously clean, handled with great care, and locked into a well-constructed framing sandwich of frame, glass, mat, foam board, backing board and tape.

The Morso, Cassesse and Fletcher equipment we use is well maintained and does an excellent job.

All framing projects are completed with the gift of hanging accessories and bumper buttons.

NOTE: our primary framing focus is our gallery displays and support of our own originals and reproductions. We do only a very limited amount of private framing work.

OPTIONS FOR FRAMING CUSTOMERS

For customers who purchase our reproductions, we offer the following options:

• mounting options: hinge mount, adhesive mount, floating mount

• matboard colours: approx. 35 colours in our in-house stock, and access to the full selection of Larson Juhl stock. 4ply and 8ply boards are available, white core and black core, and various conservation grades

• matboard design options: single mat, double mat, mats with additional adornments.
  We do not offer oval or circular mats.

• glass: most of our work was completed with Tru-Vue Conservation Clear, which filters almost 100% UV, but in 2021, we moved to using TruVue UV70 for all originals and for reproductions as an option. None of the glass we use is fully non-reflective. Lighting, correctly placed and adjusted, and good positioning will overcome most reflection issues. However, UV70 is superb at diminishing most reflection issues, so much so that a a view standing head on to a framed work will scarcely be able to discern the glass at all. UV70 reflects only about 70% of the UV, an acceptable trade off for its clarity. It is seriously more expensive than Conservation Clear.

• hanging options: at your request, we can string the picture ready to hang or prepare it for gallery style hanging by affixing D-rings.

• gallery system: Our Selah Gallery uses the superb STAS products to hang our works. They really enhance our display: simple, elegant, unobtrusive. They let the pictures speak for themselves.
  Gallery hanging is a great way to display your art work too. Yes, even in your home. It looks fabulous: discrete rails, transparent nylon cord, easy clip on hooks and fully adjustable hanging clips means you have a display that can be precisely tuned and readily altered to accommodate new acquisitions at any time. No more crooked pictures!
  We would be pleased to discuss your display requirements with you and provide a quote for STAS picture rail gallery systems. And yes, you can install it yourself, or we can do that for you too.

FRAMING MOULDINGS

We tend to use a limited set of framing mouldings to display our works. These tend to be black or white and rectangular in form. Occasionally we may find that a wooden moulding suits the work better.

OUR selections are based on two criteria:

• Is this the frame that best enhances this image?

• Is this compatible/consistent with the framing style used in our main gallery?

WIW Framing currently carries approximately 40 moulding options so there's lots more choice than just the black or the white. Even with such limited stock, we have been able to maintain a strongly satisfied customer base. Naturally we can cater to any wood-based moulding request that is featured in Larson Juhl or Crawford catalogues. 

Contact Us

Need some framing done? Sure. 

Fill out the form here with enough details to allow us to get in touch, tell us a little about what you want and we'll get back to you within a day or so.

Or ring us directly at 021 2433447 (Joanne).