Brill to be British!!

Here in Chalfont St Peter, who are celebrating!!

All the shops have joined together to celebrate, St Georges day and now the Royal wedding with style. And we made the headlines too!! Are festivities haven't gone un-noticed....The Daily mail featured our village with an image of our flags and bunting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1173582/THE-WIDER-VIEW-Shame-public-buildings-did-fly-St-Georges-Day-flag-including-BBC-House-Commons.html

Of course, Emerald Framing and Gallery were flying the flag with our High street companions!

Creative Focus- New to Emerald Gallery!

As a gallery space, its wonderful to be able to offer unique artwork, hand crafted by artists in many mediums. Oenone Randall makes quirky sculptures that make you smile, using copper as the basis for her ever expanding portfolio.


Another local Buckinghamshire artist, Oenone works from her home workshop to create a range of copper work with a fun contemporary theme. Emerald exhibits a selection of Oenone's work ranging from a life-size 3D copper flamingo, copper animals to hang in your home, and now excitingly, a range of her unique hand crafted sliver jewellery too.

All of Oenone's work is individually hand made giving each piece its own unique personality.

My favourite addition to the work on display are the hanging words. On exhibition are “love”, “hope” and “joy” each handmade in copper, to bring simple and uplifting words to your home.

Each letter is made using etching and patination to decorate in individual styles.

Great fun and uber stylish artwork with a difference.

http://www.oenonemetalsculptures.co.uk/

Creative Focus- New to Emerald gallery!

I have had the pleasure of exhibiting the stunning mosaic “wall jewellery” handmade by the clever and lovely Buckinghamshire based artist, Teresa Mills.
Emerald currently has a selection of Teresa's “wall jewellery” on exhibition, any of which would be a beautiful statement piece of artwork in anyone’s home, and would be coveted by all your friends and family!

So, let me introduce the artist: Teresa is a graduate of Brighton college of art and she has worked almost exclusively in mosaics over the last fifteen years. Teresa is the author of four books on mosaic art, including the best selling “mosaic artist's bible” which has been published in more than twenty countries. She exclusively creates her mosaic word pictures, and balances her creative process with running mosaic projects in schools and undertaking commission pieces.

The word pictures are created from shaped fibre board which is filled by hand with a variety of materials including traditional millefiore tiles (made in the MURANO works in Venice), glitter tiles, gold leaf, sequins, gems and embellishments handmade from fimo. This combination of materials provides an intense richness to the pieces - each of which is completely unique. To get this exquisite detail takes many hours of careful, patient work.

Lucky for Emerald customers, I now stock these bags of fun from Teresa, so you and yours can complete your own mosaic masterpiece and enjoy wearing it everyday!
These fabulous little bags contain mosaic kits using diamanté or millefiore to create badges and brooches. They come with full instructions and everything you require to make each brooch, including the pre-cut brooch back, the millefiore or diamanté pieces and the glue.

The perfect, affordable gift or project for you to complete and wear with pride.

http://www.teresamillsmosaics.com/

What's on at Emerald?

Emerald frames provides a picture framing service and gallery based in Chalfont St Peter, Buckinghamshire. Cath Friend, a guild commended framer offers a full bespoke framing service is available, alongside a fresh, new exhibition space for independent artists

To welcome the approaching Valentines day, Emerald is holding a two week exhibition of local artists work, with a theme of LOVE.

The exhibition is on now, and runs until Tuesday 15th February. It is full of beautiful handmade artwork at affordable prices, with prices starting from £3.00.

If you are looking for an original and unique gift of love this year, you will be warmly welcomed to the gallery in Chalfont St Peter to view the work currently on exhibition.

Why framing is so important....

Okay, so I'm bais when it comes to framing, but it really can make or break your artwork.

According to the experts, the personalization and decoration of a working or living space can encourage feelings of relaxation and satisfaction with our surroundings, fostering an atmosphere of pride and productivity. The addition of a few personal pictures, mirrors, or other framed objects on a wall can make the difference between a house and a home, or can turn a bland and anonymous office space into a comfortable and inviting environment.

Choosing a frame which is out-of-keeping with the subject being framed is a costly mistake. Each and every time you look at that picture, you will see it's not quite right, or it could be improved, not how lovely the completed framed artwork is and how you enjoy looking at it every day.

A good framer will happily assist you to find the best framing opitions for your artwork, which will bring out the best in each image or item. Factors such as the environment which the frame will hang and the type of artwork will be taken into account, and each framed peice of art will be protected by the frame and hopefully provide you with years of enjoyment.

Canvas Stretching......

I recently had a customer bring in a rather large canvas which was bought whilst on holiday, transported home rolled up and now required stretching, so it could be hung in her home.

As the canvas was over six foot in length, I commissioned special stretcher bars to be made, which would provide enough support for such a large size canvas. The stretchers included two support bars to ensure the correct support when the canvas was pulled taut.

The canvas had a beautiful gold leaf finish and was a very striking image of a Buddha's head. Quite a statement piece!!

I completed the stretching of the canvas and the customer had to transport the finished item home by van, but seemed very pleased with the end result!

So what will you bring back from your holidays?