The framing was actually my Wife Carey. I have always enjoyed woodwork in a very 'crude' fashion - furniture making etc then Carey saw an advert for a 'Framing Starter Kit' on a Craft channel she was watching and bought it for me for a Xmas gift. This was a year when I was absolute on my New Years resolutions - as it turns out, it's the only one I maintained (the guitar is gathering dust again and the lathe is still in the box!) Anyway, I loved the idea of framing pictures and have slowly and steadily built up my experience and tool shop since.

In a word No. What I do is very much a hobby an non-profit making. Until recently all the stuff I have done has either been for myself, gifts or on request for friends, family and colleagues. Recently, at the 2007 Gourdon Gala, I displayed my stuff with a price that covered the materials and postage, with a surcharge equal to 10% - this I then returned back to the Gala Fund.
Admittedly things got a bit out of hand and what was a hobby became a mad rush to complete 13 orders for people within four weeks! Still, it added £31.50 to the '£1000 plus' sum raised on the day.

Simple, I enjoy seeing the final product and get a real kick out of knowing that others think it's good too - I know of two my coastal pictures that are on there way to be displayed in some ones house in Singapore!! How many people can say the did that in their weekend!

Again I can say no. It is a hobby and I am very much an amateur (to see the 'real deal' try Fintray Fine Framing). In my coastal pictures I include a "deliberate error" - nothing noticeable unless you really look hard and when you see it, it doesn't spoil the images! Why - well the first set of pics I ever did had this within it and I had no choice but to accept it, since then I've deliberately included something similar.

*Stonehaven (I know it's been photographed to death but I fancy seeing what I can do that's different)