Ashdown Art at Pheasant Framing has developed from the picture framing business that was started by proprietor, Neil Buchanan, in 1987 having worked previously in the trade for seven years with a print publisher. The gallery, which is situated in an old dairy, shows views of Ashdown Forest, Sussex by artists who live on and around the Forest. Also available are photos of local villages taken in the early days of photography.
Our busy picture framing workshop was established in 1987 in a disused dairy in Sharpthorne, Sussex and very quickly received a reputation for achieving a high standard of framing, both decoratively and for using the latest techniques. For a number of years, Pheasant Framing has become noted for its summer floral display outside the building and have either come first, or been runner up, in the village hanging basket competition.
Neil Buchanan has over 25 years experience in the trade and has passed the Fine Art Trade Guild's examination to become a GCF - 'Guild Commended Framer'.
We are able to carry out any framing request and in the past we have framed a golf club and a parrot's egg as well as many other interesting items. Cleaning and restoration of oil paintings and water colours can be undertaken and we have our team of experts to do this for us. Our extensive range of mouldings equates to over 400 starting with the basics and going through to wide ornate gilts. Modern framing is catered for with the latest fashion for flat mouldings and for floating oil paintings. We are showing over 100 different mount boards, including deep bevel boards.
Today we are very much interested in conservation framing and can provide customers with acid free mountings, which give artwork protection from pollutants in the atmosphere. Glass is now available to cut down on the effects of ultra violet light. You would be quite amazed if you saw the fading that has occurred to Victorian watercolours when we take them out of their original frames. Most people believe that because sunlight doesn't reach the back of a room fading wont take place. OK, it will be a very gradual process but there will always be some up light getting through. Prints are the worst at fading and if poor quality inks have been used they will fade to blue in a matter of a few years. Yellow dyes fade first followed by red whilst blue lasts the longest.
We look forward to seeing you for your framing requirements from Tuesday to Saturday. We are closed Sunday and Monday. We have a variety of local artwork on sale and also supply ready made frames, clip frames and greetings cards.
Artists showing at present are:
Rosemary Goolden, Jon Hale, Jackie Jones, Pamela Hurwitz, Juliet Murray, Mary Povey, Sid Sadgrove.
