What Does A 'Mount' Mean?

​If you take a look pieces of framed artwork, you'll notice that many of them have something that looks like a kind of card 'border' around the artwork itself, inside the frame. This is a mount!A mount is a great way to provide a level of 'breathing space' in between your artwork and the frame itself. This is especially useful in situations where your artwork is very close to the edge of the medium it is printed on. How to work out what size of mount you will needLet's say you have a print wh...... Read more...

Picture Frame Sizes

Understanding picture frame sizesHow to choose the perfectly sized frame and mount combination for your artworkWe've created this guide to help you understand how sizes work in the framing world, and to clearly explain the options at your disposal. Framing online can at first be a little bit tricky to get your head around, especially if you've never done it before. We get many questions relating to size of artwork/size of frames for example: 'I have X size picture, what frame size do I need?'...... Read more...

Some Tastes are More Equal Than Others: What A New Survey Tells Us About the Gender Politics Of Art In The Home

“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls” – Pablo PicassoYour home a gallery. You the curator. What you display on the walls of your home, from photos to posters or original art, is often a very public representation of your tastes, talents, feelings and ambitions. Your life stories and the way you choose to tell them.Credit: Max Braun via Flickr [cc]But how, and why, do we choose our art in all its various forms, and where to display it? Within any household are th...... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: May 2016 WINNERS

Thank you for all of your fantastic entries to our ​May Photo of the Month competition!Here are the prize winners for May 2016, starting with the overall winner:1st Place'Beautiful Summer Simplicity'by Lewis Pick2nd Place'Ferris Wheel' by Ian Cook3rd Place'Sunset over Hunstanton, Norfolk' by Paul Ratcliffe4th Place'Shirakawa-Go (a Japanese traditional farm house'by Guy Nesher5th Place'Garden Rose'by Neil Torr... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: May 2016

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Best4Frames Photo of The Month competition for May 2016!Once again this month you'll have the chance to show off your photography skills on the Best4Frames website, and be in with a chance of winning up to £100 of frames by entering your best work.HOW TO ENTEREntry opens on, Monday 2nd May 2016. Entry closes at 23:45, Tuesday 24th May 2016.To enter submit your email address at the bottom of this page, along with a favourite photo that you have ta...... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: April 2016 WINNERS

Thank you for all of your fantastic entries to our ​April Photo of the Month competition!An interesting range of photographic styles on display this month, with the winning submissions falling under the 'people and portraits' and 'landscapes' categories respectively. As spring turns to summer, we expect to see even more of the latter category in particular, so why not surprise us with something a little bit more unusual?! Here are the prize winners for April 2016, starting with the overall wi...... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: April 2016

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Best4Frames Photo of The Month competition for April 2016!Once again this month you'll have the chance to show off your photography skills on the Best4Frames website, and be in with a chance of winning up to £100 of frames by entering your best work.HOW TO ENTEREntry opens on, Monday 28th March 2016. Entry closes at midnight, Sunday 24th April 2016.To enter submit your email address below, along with a favourite photo that you have taken. Entry i...... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: March 2016 WINNERS

Thank you for all of your incredible entries to our ​March Photo of the Month competition!A brilliant selection of photography submissions this month. Once again, you gave us a real selection headache when it came to picking winners for the contest this month. Nevertheless, as usual we got there in the end...Here are the prize winners for March 2016, starting with the overall winner:1st Place'Leeds Liverpool Canal Reflections'by Matthew Hanwell2nd Place'A beautiful day' by Kristina Trick3rd P...... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: March 2016

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Best4Frames Photo of The Month competition for March 2016!Once again this month you'll have the chance to show off your photography skills on the Best4Frames website, and be in with a chance of winning up to £100 of frames by entering your best work.HOW TO ENTEREntry opens on, Tuesday 1st March 2016. Entry closes at midnight, Wednesday 23rd March 2016.To enter submit your email address below, along with a favourite photo that you have taken. Entr...... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: February 2016 WINNERS

Thank you for all of your incredible entries to our ​February photo of the month competition!A fantastic array of photography submissions this February. Interestingly they mainly involved 'wildlife' and 'architecture' which seem to be extremely popular photographic subjecrs. Once again, you gave us a real selection headache when it came to picking winners for the contest this month. Nevertheless, we got there in the end...Here are the prize winners for February 2016, starting with the overall...... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: February 2016

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Best4Frames Photo of The Month competition for February 2016!Once again this month you'll have the chance to show off your photography skills on the Best4Frames website, and be in with a chance of winning up to £100 of frames by entering your best work.HOW TO ENTEREntry opens on, Monday 1st February 2016. Entry closes at midnight, Monday 22nd February 2016.To enter submit your email address below, along with a favourite photo that you have taken....... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: January 2016 WINNERS

Thank you for all of your incredible entries to our ​January photo of the month competition!The year 2016 has got off to an absolute flyer in photographic terms! We've seen a wonderful wave of creativity in your entries, and we hope that continues throughout the year (we're sure it will!). Let's take a look at the winning entries from the Best4Frames Photo of the Month competition. Here are the prize winners for January 2016, starting with the overall winner:1st Place'Sunset in Cromer, UK'by ...... Read more...

How can I frame my pictures?

Never framed anything before? No need to panic.Scenario: You’ve just bought/been given/inherited/obtained in some unusual way either one, or a set of, pictures, prints or photographs. The question now is: what on earth to do next? If you’re either looking at getting something framed, or have at least been considering it, then the following collection of words may well come in handy.We’ve written this because like a lot of things in life, things that you’re unfamiliar with can at first look pr...... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: January 2016

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Best4Frames Photo of The Month competition for January 2016!Beginning this month you'll have the chance to show off your photography skills on the Best4Frames website, and be in with a chance of winning up to £100 of frames by entering your best work.HOW TO ENTEREntry opens on, Tuesday 5th of January 2016. Entry closes at midnight, Saturday 23rd of January 2016.To enter submit your email address below, along with a favourite photo that you have t...... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: December 2015 WINNERS

Thank you for all of your incredible entries to our ​December photo of the month competition!We have some top talent on display once again this month as we take a look at the winning entries from the Best4Frames Photo of the Month competition. Here are the prize winners for December 2015, starting with the overall winner:1st Place'Wrawby PostMill'by Bob Riach2nd Place'Little red' by Neil Wayper3rd Place'Keeping Guard' by Anthony Boden4th Place'A stunning Darter Dragonfly'by Medi Jones5th Plac...... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: December 2015

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Best4Frames Photo of The Month competition for December 2015!Beginning this month you'll have the chance to show off your photography skills on the Best4Frames website, and be in with a chance of winning up to £100 of frames by entering your best work.HOW TO ENTEREntry opens on, Tuesday 1st of December 2015. Entry closes at midnight, Thursday 24th of December 2015.To enter submit your email address below, along with a favourite photo that you hav...... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: November 2015 WINNERS

Thank you for all of your incredible entries to our ​November photo of the month competition!We have some top talent on display once again this month as we take a look at the winning entries from the Best4Frames Photo of the Month competition. Here are the prize winners for November 2015, starting with the overall winner:1st Place'Sunset in Rhodes, Greece'by Paul Ratcliffe2nd Place'A lonely bench. Taken in Barry, vale of Glamorgan, Wales.' by Dani Colston3rd Place'Autumn at Staward Gorge, Nor...... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: November 2015

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Best4Frames Photo of The Month competition for November 2015!Beginning this month you'll have the chance to show off your photography skills on the Best4Frames website, and be in with a chance of winning up to £100 of frames by entering your best work.HOW TO ENTEREntry opens on, Sunday 1st of November 2015. Entry closes at midnight, Monday 23rd of November 2015.To enter submit your email address below, along with a favourite photo that you have t...... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: October 2015 WINNERS

Thank you for all of your incredible entries to our ​October photo of the month competition!Yet more talent on display this month as we take a look at the winning entries from the Best4Frames Photo of the Month competition. Here are the prize winners for October 2015, starting with the overall winner:1st Place'The Northern Lights'by Alan Rae2nd Place'Never work with animals???' by Ben Appleby3rd Place'The Nut Thief' by Nathan Dodsworth4th Place'Mists over Pendle'by Michael Horsfield5th Place'...... Read more...

Best4Frames - Photo of the Month Competition: October 2015

​We are delighted to announce the launch of the Best4Frames Photo of The Month competition for October 2015!Beginning this month you'll have the chance to show off your photography skills on the Best4Frames website, and be in with a chance of winning up to £100 of frames by entering your best work.HOW TO ENTEREntry opens at midnight, Thursday 1st of October 2015. Entry closes at midnight, Saturday 24th of October 2015.To enter submit your email address below, along with a favourite photo that...... Read more...