A different route, and a close look at what's actually in the frame

I came to framing sideways.

For more than a decade my work has been about paying close, patient attention to someone's story and building the platform they needed to tell it. I worked with the UN Assistance Mission in Somalia and the UN Investigative Team in Iraq, then with the US Holocaust Memorial Museum and Nobel Peace Prize laureates, helping survivors and human rights defenders shape their own advocacy and campaign work rather than speaking for them. That same instinct carried me into the art and VR worlds, co-creating the award-winning Nobody's Listening, an immersive VR and art exhibition built around Yazidi survivor testimony that's toured every continent and is currently on its way to the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in April 2027, and founding Upstream XR, making social impact VR documentaries on atrocities in Ethiopia and Ukraine, including the award-winning Remember Tigray. Some of that work, and how it shapes the framing I do now, is on the Human Rights Artivism page.

Picture framing asks for exactly the same thing, just on a smaller and more physical scale. A mount board instead of a headset. A mitre joint instead of a script.

I trained at West Dean College under the tutelage of Annika McSeveny and continue to develop my practice in the workshop every day. What I've found myself drawn to is restraint. I look for a colour that already exists somewhere inside the piece, often a quieter, secondary tone rather than the most obvious one, and build the mount from there. I reach for double mounts with metallic slips and reveals more often than not, and I enjoy combining two or three mouldings to create something that feels considered rather than off the shelf.

I work with artists, collectors, designers and anyone who's brought something home from a trip, a gallery, a wall or a life event and wants it preserved properly. Photography, fine art prints, maps, documents, and the kinds of keepsakes such as a letter, a ticket or an invitation that are easy to lose and impossible to replace.

I'm based in Haywards Heath, West Sussex. If you're not sure what a piece needs, that's usually where the conversation begins.