About Framing

Canvas Prints

Stretched canvas prints are best ‘gallery wrapped’, where the image wraps around the edge of the stretcher. We carefully hand-stretch and secure your canvas over a mitred and wedged wooden stretcher frame. Two wooden wedges per corner are used to finalise the stretched canvas.

We only use 100% pure cotton artist canvas (340gms), which is ideal for the reproduction of Richard’s work and gives added value to the artwork. Giclées printed on canvas have an extra special protection coating over the canvas print to make sure it does not get damaged from scratches or splashes and for greater UV stability.

Wooden Wedges	42mm x 18mm Stretcher	45mm x 45mm Stretcher	Gallery Wrapping

We use two sizes of stretcher bars depending on image size:

• Standard Stretcher Bars (42mm x 18mm) are a tongue-and-groove design and made from the finest Spruce Pine Fir kiln-dried lumber, precision-milled with computer driven cutting equipment.
• Premium Stretcher Bars (45mm x 45mm) made from virtually knot free engineered softwood: high quality finger jointed and laminated Pine. This makes it stronger than its equivalent in solid "natural" timber, and helps prevent warping. Single crossbars are added for frames where one side is 90cm (36") or over and double crossbars are added for frames where both sides are over 90cm (36").

Framed Picture Prices (Canvas Gallery-wrapped)

For gallery-wrapped pictures, choose image/s, download PDF Order Form and order by Post.

Available Sizes (in inches):

15 x 12	=	£76.06
20 x 16	=	£96.47
30 x 24	=	£153.25
40 x 32	=	£266.94
50 x 40	=	£354.38

Please note these are image sizes. The canvas prints are "wrapped" around a wooden stretcher frame, so the size of the finished picture will be smaller than indicated. See notes above re stretcher bar sizes.
Alternatively, you can choose to order print only and take this to your local framing outlet.

Paper Prints

If you choose to order your print on paper, we only use the highest quality acid-free paper as you would find with any fine water colour painting. It is suggested you mat the print and place it in a frame under glass (perhaps non-reflecting) as you would with any watercolour painting. Just take it along to your local framing outlet and ask their advice. Your fine art print will have a border added for mounting or finishing.

We print on Photo Rag Paper from the Hahnemühle Digital Fine Art range of papers. This high quality Photo Rag Paper is extremely age resistant. The smooth surface structure can be used for a variety of applications. This quality is ideal for archival printing of black and white or colour photographs and also art reproductions. This is often considered to be the industry standard that photographers base professional output on and tends to be the first choice from the point of view of the best photographic look.

This paper has an amazing D-max (black) saturation, depth and colour with a very smooth matt surface, the white tone lies between natural and bright white. This smooth, bright white, age resistant paper has a 100% rag content. This heavy 308 gsm paper provides the weight of an art paper with a smooth calendered surface, which picks up every detail captured in the photograph.

Recommended Print Sizes

Although this website allows print ordering in 1 inch size increments, we suggest ordering in the following ‘stock’ sizes: 15 x 12; 20 x 16; 30 x 24; 40 x 32. These are also likely to produce the best value for money in terms of print size v cost. Please note that print sizes given are only approximate – your finished print may vary slightly from this depending on precise image ratio.