Skills Art Materials & Picture Framing

Skills has ten years of handling delicate and much treasured family photographs when providing a high quality photo restoration service. Your requirement could be anything from just enlarging and re-printing old photos to complete reconstruction of old items of huge sentimental value.

Skills restoration package starts at just 29 which includes the scanning of the photograph, restoring colour and repair, and a CD with the newly restored image for you to freely share.Skills restoration team are experts at handling any kind of damaged image, keeping your photographs stored safely for return with your freshly restored image package.

You will be amazed at the range of materials we have in stock, catering for every project from hobbyist to professional. We stock a large range of art and craft brushes from inexpensive pony haired children's brushes to best sable water colour brushes and hog brushes for oils and acrylic. We stock a range of pads and papers with sizes and surfaces for every purpose.

Skills are a specialist picture framing service for fine art originals, limited editions, artists and photographers in the Milton Keynes area, and have offered high quality picture framing services from Stony Stratford for nearly 30 years. With our knowledge and collective expertise we are able to undertake fine art framing, looking after your cherished, and very often valuable and irreplacable art.

Beautiful wrap-around box canvasses, from your own image or artwork, printed onto VERY high quality canvas in lightfast pigment dyes. We only use 415gsm weight canvas as other lighter weights (200, 250 and 350gsm) do not give the quality we are prepared to put our name to; frankly you may as well use the cheaper options in that case.

Fine Art Restoration, Painting Restorer and Picture Cleaning throughout Buckinghamshire, Northamptonshire, Bedfordshire and Oxfordshire, we offer expert advice and complete services from light surface cleaning to complete restoration of fine paintings. Whether an item has sentimental value only, or it is an expensive and high value item, we can work accordingly, providing added value through bringing paintings back to their best.