Our promises ensure quality work, completion by deadlines, and your overall satisfaction. We are sticklers for getting things absolutely right ("that'll do" is not good enough for us!) Matching up wood-grain patterns at the corners; aligning knots (if they prove unavoidable) to a picture's vanishing-points; using colouring-techniques similar to those of the artist; echoing a work's compositional elements in the mount-textures, or in the sectional shape of a moulding: these are the "meat and drink" of our everyday ideas. Such subtle points make a picture's surround an inseparable part of the whole, so natural that you ignore it and can get on with enjoying your picture.
| 1982 | Framing course at West Dean College. First workshop, at St. John's, Portsmouth. | |
| 1983 | Set up as AAA Framing under Enterprise Allowance Scheme. Moved to Victory Business Centre, Portsmouth. | |
| 1984 | First major exhibition (Eric Meadus) gave full reign to develop style of 'sympathetic' hand-applied colouring (echoing the artist's method of using colour), then an almost unheard-of concept. Second course at West Dean (frame-restoration). | |
| 1986 | Major commission, secured against tenders from top London framers: a restored English Civil War banner, belonging to a church on Box Hill, Surrey. First of extended series of articles for The Artist magazine, published all over the English-speaking world. Long project, refurbishing 23 frames for H.M.S. Dryad, the Naval Officers Training School. | |
| 1987 | Framing of & publicity design for Two Memorable Men (L.S. Lowry and photographer Crispin Eurich) at The First Gallery and later all over Britain. Style of presentation (particularly the photographs) was much remarked on by curators at tour-venues. | |
| 1988 | In London: work for the Saatchi Collection; the London Lighthouse Project; City of London (Harold Samuel Collection); the Anthony Caro Studio; and many leading -- and more obscure -- artists. |
| 1989 | Left to follow up other framing contacts. Started operating from The First Gallery, Southampton. | |
| 1991 | Set up as The Corner Shop in Woolston, So'ton. The Animated Eye, Peter Markey's touring exhibition earned rave reviews, even singling out the frames(!) assuming them to have been coloured by the artist himself. On the road until 1999, it visited over 30 venues and attracted much favourable comment. | |
| 1994 | Framed all 89 works, in five weeks(!), for John Hansard Gallery exhibition Photo-Reclamation, later seen in Glasgow, Russia, USA & Japan. | |
| 1995 | Moved to current location in Bishop's Waltham. Made and designed re-vamped security-crating for The Animated Eye. Framing & publicity design for Architect at Leisure, The First Gallery's third touring exhibition (of private work by Arthur Mattinson, who designed Blackpool Tower) shown at six venues. | |
| 1998 | Framing of Passage from India by Jacqueline Mair (seen across England) | |
| 2000 | 20 photos by Crispin Eurich framed for the new Milestones "Living History" Museum, Basingstoke. |