Custom Picture Framing...
Studio Gallery with the current selection of wood mouldings and acid-free matboards on display
Stone sculpture "Dunes Torso" is in the foreground
See Sensuous Stone Sculptures for more sculpture
Joanna Terpstra's Studio Gallery stocks a range of quality frames and acid-free matboards to provide you with a complete professional onsite custom picture framing service.
Joanna's original paintings and Giclée prints can be framed according to your specific requirements.
Joanna takes extra special care to ensure that her artwork is well presented and of investment quality.
Stacked wood mouldings and glass cutting bench in the barn
Morso guillotine for precision mitre cutting frame corners and moulding support bench
Cutting goldleaf wooden moulding on Morso guillotine
Gielle V-nail underpinner, frame supports and Klampit glue for securely joining mitres
Joining the glued mitred corners on the Gielle V nailer underpinner for really strong joins
The barn where the frames are made and the glass is cut
The path from the studio to the barn
Joanna Terpstra framed in her Studio Gallery
Handmade Onsite...
Joanna Terpstra individually hand-makes all of the frames for her original pastel paintings and Limited Edition Giclée prints.
Choosing from a selection of Bainbridge acid-free coloured matboards, she cuts a window mount to suit the artwork on her Kleencut Ultimat mattcutter. With the larger pastel paintings, Joanna cuts double mats with a fomecore insert inbetween to catch any pastel dust.
Then she cuts acid-free 5mm fomecore for the backing. Next, she hinge-hangs the artwork to the back of the mat using linen acid-free pressure tape.
She then chooses a moulding from her stock of finished wooden mouldings, and cuts the mitres on her Morso guillotine. She securely joins the mitred corners by applying Klampit adhesive and inserting v-nails using her Gielle underpinner.
While the glue is drying, she cuts the 2mm clear picture glass to size. She cleans the glass using wash and rinse sprays with microfibre cloths.
All of the parts are then layered: first backing, on top of that the mounted artwork, glass, and frame. This whole "sandwich" is then turned over and fixed in place using a bradder gun.
The back is sealed with anchor tape, holes are drilled, triangle ring hangers are screwed in place and plastic-coated high-strength twist wire fitted. The artwork is labeled and catalogued. Step by step photos
The matcutter bench in the studio where the matboard and backing is cut, glass cleaned and the frame is put together
Cutting the matboard window mount
The layers of the sandwich - fomecore backing, painting, matboard, fomecore fillet, matboard and glass - 17mm high in all, on matcutter bench in the studio
Joanna nailing the backing into the wooden frame moulding using a bradder gun on studio bench
Attaching the wire to triangle ring hangers screwed into the back of the frame after sealing with anchor tape
Joanna Terpstra in her Studio Gallery with fully framed original paintings, rainforest paintings and beach paintings
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