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What does everyone do about presenting their paintings? For mounting I have just bought a mitre cutter and some white core mount board (only available online), and I am really pleased with the results at a cost of just over £1 per picture. This enables me to 'crop' pictures to exactly as I want, and not as decided by professional framers. It also means that I can use standard frame/glass kits which are much cheaper than purpose-made frames.
I am not sure about gallery canvasses; they remind me of those instant art pictures you buy at Homebase as part of a room decoration. Obviously you don't have the cost of framing but what do you do at the edges? Continuing the picture around the edges to me looks a bit naff, so do you paint or leave the edge unpainted? What do others do? I have visited a couple of galleries selling expensive (i.e. in the thousands) paintings and they were invariably framed with varying degrees of success; I know that John Hammond pays about £250 per frame for an average size painting on board but they looked the business.