A list of recommended picture framers

All artists appreciate a recommendation about a framer. 

You know how this works:

• if you want a recommendation you need to share who you recommend!
• if you want the good framers to stay in business, we need to make sure they get asked to do lots of work!
• plus you do everybody a great service it you provide recommendations on your website for:
• the materials you like to use and 
• the framers you patronise because you get a great service 

the studio of an 18th centuryGerman framework gilder

List of recommended picture framers

The next logical step is a list of recommended picture framers. Which is where I come in...

I get absolutely no financial benefit from doing this. Like my blog it's just something I'm doing and sharing - because it helps people

I just know this is information artists need and it works better if there is somebody who provides a list.

So that's what I've done

On my my Art Business Info for Artists website, I have a DEDICATED page for a List of Recommended Picture Framers

• These are framers who are recommended by artists who have used them - on the artist's website or blog.
• they are listed in two different ways:
• traditional vs online
• geographical location - in the UK and Ireland

At present the listing is limited to the UK and Ireland but there's no reason why it shouldn't include people around the world.

There's just one thing - the recommendation has to come from the artist and there needs to be evidence of a recommendation on his or her website or blog.

View of a framework mill, oil on canvas
Dorotheum

You are very welcome to add your recommendations to this list

If you'd like to recommend a picture framer this is what you do.
Complete the form at the bottom of the website page

• state your name and your email address (ie recommendations cannot be anonymous and can only come from artists)
• state the name of the Framer, where they are located
• Identify the URL of a website or blog where you recommend this framer online. If you haven't recommended the framer online then the framer cannot be added to this listing.

By way of explanation, it's more convincing as a recommendation if you also list them on your website and/or have examples of their work on your website.

Who do you recommend as a picture framer?

Below are links to more of blog posts about framing and hanging pictures.

Links to more blog posts about framing

• All the mistakes you can make when submitting work to an art exhibition (2016)
• The reasons why frames for art change over time (2015)
• Do frames help to sell art? (2015)
• How to avoid frames eating your profit (2016)
• POLL: Exhibition frames: How much do you spend per frame on average? (2011)
• How much do you spend on exhibition frames on average? (Poll results) (2011)
• How to mat and frame your artwork (2008)
• My frames have arrived - I'm waxing tonight! (2014)
• How to hang a painting - using mirror plates (2015)
• How to hang a picture - using D Rings (2015)
• How to hang a large or heavy picture - using heavy duty hanging hardware (2015)