Picture Framing Training
Welcome to the picture framing industry’s premium training website. Learn from seven of the industry’s most respected and highly qualified framers and educators. Choose from five locations around the UK and Europe.
Get the most out of your picture framing business
Your framing business, like any other enterprise can be full of challenges and pitfalls that need to be overcome. Are you new to the industry and looking to start off on the right foot? Or are you already a working framer and want to take your business to the next level? That’s great. We should talk.
We all know there’s a lot more to picture framing than just four pieces of wood. Whether it’s finding out about best industry practice and the latest techniques, preparing for taking a framing qualification or improving your profitability by getting your pricing and marketing right, speak to us! As recognised industry framing experts and educators, we’ve got the experience and knowledge to help you.
Hundreds of framers have benefitted from the seminars, training sessions, online workshops, guidance and chats at exhibitions that this team of top talent has been involved with over the years.
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Experienced
As well as being industry educators, we are all actively working as bespoke framing specialists. Each of us has built our business from the ground up and operate highly regarded, profitable and professional enterprises. Between us we have over 150 years of bespoke framing expertise and more than 100 years of industry specific training experience to call on.
This has enabled us to offer a unique training programme – quite simply, we offer picture framing tuition that you will not get anywhere else.
Qualified
We are all recognised by the Fine Art Trade Guild as Accredited Trainers.
It goes without saying that we each hold the base level GCF (Guild Certified Framer) qualification. In addition, we all extended our studies to attain the three available GCF Advanced qualifications. The ‘GCF Advanced’ are specialist subject modules, and cover Conservation Framing, Textile Framing, and Mount Design & Function.
There is at least one GCF examiner at each training location.
Relevant
We are actively involved in setting industry standards, developing best working practice and providing technical support for working framers. As you would expect, as Guild Examiners our knowledge is always up to date. We’ve written study material and technical articles for leading industry publications. We’ve led industry discussion forums, including updating mountboard standards. We have unrivalled experience of how best to apply this knowledge to a bespoke framing business.
Are we right for you?
We will be a good fit if you’re any of the following:
- New to the framing industry and keen to learn the skills you need to become a successful picture framer.
- An existing picture framer looking to build and develop your technical skills and increase profitability for your business.
- A professional photographer or artist, looking to diversify into picture framing by learning the correct techniques.
- Looking to sit Guild Certified Framer or GCF Advanced module examinations in the future, and want help from current GCF examiners with your preparation.
