Wedding Dress Framing

What do you do with your wedding dress after the big day?  Dry clean it and leave it in a box in the loft or in a wardrobe?  Or do you frame it? We have used the bottom half of the dress to rouche a background and cover the side fillets.  The only item in […]

Tim Baynes

Artist and Printmaker Tim Baynes has studied at Colchester School of Art, the Slade School of Fine Art and Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design. He works in oils, acrylics as well as watercolours capturing the sea and shoreline, landscapes and cities: private collectors in Britain, America, Australia, Italy and France have acquired […]

Diversity Textile Exhibition

‘UP CLOSE’ – Textile & Mixed Media Exhibition by Diversity at the KD Fine Art Gallery (adjacent to the James Watts Gallery) The Old Pottery Building, Down Lane, Compton GU13 1DQ. 5th September – 2nd October 2011. Opening times 10.30 am – 5.30pm. Come and meet the artists on the Saturdays. For more gallery information […]

Emma Cowlam

Chelsea Art School textile design graduate Emma Cowlam produces hand stitched and hand drawn original illustrations from a personally developed and highly unique technique.  Taking inspiration from daily life, intricately descriptive images are recorded and translated into stylish, classic designs. Her work is both prize winning and internationally exhibited. Emma’s beautiful illustrations have progressed into […]

Phil Madley

  Encaustic Wax – An ancient art with a modern twist… Phil paints in wax…a technique that dates back to the ancient Egyptians. He uses special equipment to melt the wax ie an iron, paint stripper and hot stylus. The coloured and metallic waxes are painted onto card or MDF board. The waxes are very […]

Robert Stuart

Robert was born in London before emigrating to Nigeria – at the ripe old age of six weeks – returning to the UK in time to start school, and a paid career playing with computers. He is a self taught artist, a term that is hardly a tribute to the many teachers that he did […]

Easter Egg Hunt

Easter Egg Hunt Saturday 23rd April The Big Easter Egg hunt in Wendover! Meet on the Manor Waste ( outside Budgen’s ) at 3.30pm. Games Master Reverend Mark Dearnley talks the rules, as he’s in charge! One ticket allows you to claim one Rumsey Egg. No limit to the number of tickets purchased. No ticket – […]

Hand Finishes

Now that we have more space at our workshop, we are now able to offer various hand finishes on our frames. Here, we worked with the artist to create colours that are in keeping with her work. Several examples were made with this being the final choice.   Here we used a crackle glaze on […]

Caroline De Peyrecave

Caroline de Peyrecave SWA trained at the atelier of Charles H. Cecil – Florence, Italy. She works mainly from life by a technique called sight-size. The broad handling comes into focus when seen at the viewing distance. While her work belongs to this tradition, she tries to make it more interesting by pushing its boundaries and therefore hopefully giving it a contemporary edge.

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