The period style frames I’ve chosen to present my tonalism work are inspired by traditional techiques of a bygone era. My desire was to replicate the distressed patina of aged gilded frames from the Renaissance. They are hand crafted from solid pine by my ‘resident frame maker’ husband, Richard. When I have completed a new painting, I give him the dimensions and he goes to work in his shop at the back of the house. When he’s finished all the cutting, routing, gluing, drying, nailing, sanding, etc. etc. He brings them up to my studio for finishing.   Now I take his beautiful new clean, pine frame and totally destroy…