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A lady has just been in with a watercolour painting fixed to the mount with short pieces of the gummed white perforated border from sheets of postage stamps asking me if I sell this special tape.
A few months back a local gallery sent a member of staff to buy some of "those flat nails" for fixing the back into the frame. I was told that their framing expert had been called in to remove a flumb from inside a framed piece of art, while the customer was waiting to buy it.
Mark Lacey
“Life is short. Art long. Opportunity is fleeting. Experience treacherous. Judgement difficult.”
― Geoffrey Chaucer
Recently we where unloading a lorry load of moulding with 2 hired help from my uncles removal business. A good friend of mine was helping also. In conversation, and ever the salesman, I showed the lads one of my picture portrait samples and they were impressed. I explained that that exact sample was responsible for hundreds of sales (from my door to door days), when one of them piped up "You could have used a better looking child". The guy couldn't find a hole big enogh to hide in when my friend informed him that it was his child in the picture.
A couple of weeks ago a guy was asking for a quote for framing at my market stall and was pointing to one of my samples on display. After a while of going through the options he said "I don't think I'll need the blue thing with it" (a blue painted easel).
Actually, I quite like plastic moulding. 