The solution? Frame the work yourself and save hundreds of dollars. What you want is to enhance the artwork without stealing the show. Framing can support the art by accentuating particular colors.

Working nights at a crafting business would often be so slow that Calby Boss found himself in the store’s frame shop experimenting with different mats and frames. There, in the back room of the ...

There is a lot of competition in the art framing and matting industry, and it can only mean one of two things. No one is making any money. Or, the second and more logical meaning, this is big ...

Frames make it possible to appreciate a piece of art differently or enhance the experience, Nucci says. And Nucci often uses French matting — coloring, lining and pasting of marble papers — to ...

The French matting (a series of lines and panels which surround the painting) is also special as I purchased the dry pigments used in their creation in the small town of Rousillon.