I had this interesting job to do this week. Kim called by to see if I could mount this painting she’d bought. Kim had been in previously looking at getting a photo put onto canvas but decided she wanted this painting done first.

The difficult part was the top of the painting had been trimmed as you see it in the photo. So I couldn’t wrap any of the top around to the back like I normally do. Needless to say I had to do a bit of thinking how to mount it and came up with doing an edge glue to the top front 1cm of the canvas onto the mdf backing.

From there it was a matter of doing the rest the normal way. To finish off the top/top-rear, I glued on a strip of plain canvas, which Kim would paint later on to closer match the rest of the painting. The frame measured 950mm x 875mm so it was quite a large one!

Kim called me later to thank me for the wonderful job and said she’d be back to have those photos put onto canvas.

Andrew called to see me about having a series of photos restored of his old time relatives from South Africa. This particular photo is of his grandfather’s rugby team taken in the early nineteen hundreds. The image was marked and scratched and looking worse for wear. After some extensive work the picture looked much better.

Bernessa contacted me about having this wonderful landscape photo put onto canvas. It was a scene taken by her husband from Cape Brett, Bay Of Islands, New Zealand, looking northwards. I did a few minor enhancements to bring out the best of the image and printed it onto canvas. The image was wrapped around a frame measuring 700mm x 530mm.

Bernessa emailed me some wonderful feedback: ” Thanks Neal for an AWESOME job. We absolutely love it!! Well worth the money and thanks very much for dropping off the photo to my mum’s that was beyond the call of duty thanks. I will recommend you to my friends and family.

Kind regards Bernessa

P.S I will be using your services in the future I just need to figure out what I want.

Steve Moase of Moaseart is a well known artist living in Sandy Bay, Northland, New Zealand. He approached me wanting to make quality canvas art reproductions of some of his work. Steve specializes in distinctively New Zealand Art, featuring the country’s rich heritage of flora, fauna, coastal landscapes and bush scenes in the form of painting and fine sketches.

I discusssed with Steve his options regarding size and type of canvas printed and mounted, choosing three works to start from. Steve was really pleased with the end results, and I know his reproduced art works will be found in many new homes. The three above images are titled from top: “Karamea”, “Tiki 3″ and “Amongst the Giants.” More information on his works can be found at his website:

On Sunday 25th October the New Zealand Black Sticks Mens’ Team played against a Northern invitation side comprising Northland and North Harbour hockey players. The match was held as a fundraiser for ex Northland player Mike Delaney.

A Junior Black Stick and North Harbour NHL player, Mike suffered a broken neck some months ago and has since been making a long slow recovery. Michael’s family have made a massive financial commitment to get Michael over to Germany for stem cell surgery, which is hoped will aid him in his battle back to a normal life. The weekend of events including evening dinner and the game was hugely successful.

The Blacksticks won by a huge margin.

This month we’re doing 15% off all custom and regular sized panorama prints. This is for canvas prints, mounted canvas prints and photographic prints. Get your orders on now for Christmas!