news, press & events

28th May 2009 - UP & COMING EVENTS & EXHIBITIONS

28ST MAY 2009 - fine-focus has entered this month's Creative Match Flair competition with new work taken in Norfolk. To see the entry, please visit >> Flair competition entry.

1ST FEBRUARY 2007 - fine-focus appears on ITV's 60 minute makeover, after our work was selected by designer Julia Kendell. To see more about the show and the makeover, visit >> ITV's 60 minute mkeover website.Our work is featured in the Master Bedroom. To see the images and frames used in Julia's design, visit the following links:

Prints featured
>> 223 - Orchid 12 Print
>> 214 - Orchid 03 Print
>> 181 - White Tulip 02 Print
>> 182 - White Tulip 03 Print
>> 183 - White Tulip 04 Print

Frames featured
>> 989 - Walnut Frame with Maple String
>> 990 - Maple Frame with Walnut String

ALL YEAR - fine-focus is open year around by appointment. Please call us on 0845 266 1726 for more information & directions.

NEW EVENTS TO BE ANNOUNCED SOON!

2nd & 3rd DECEMBER 2006 - Christmas art & Crafts at Hertford Castle, Hertford, Herts SG14 1HR

4th JUNE 2006 - Castle Fun Day at Hertford Castle, Hertford, Herts SG14 1HR

27th - 28TH MAY 2006 - Hertfordshire County Show, The Showground, Dunstable Road, Redbourn, Herts AL3 7PT. We will be situated in the Shopping Marquee at this large, exciting annual event.

3rd & 4th DECEMBER 2005 - Christmas art & Crafts at Hertford Castle, Hertford, Herts

26th & 27th NOVEMBER 3005 - Christmas Crafts at Cressing Temple Barns, Essex

8th & 9th OCTOBER 2005 - Ickworth Wood Sale & Fair, Ickworth House Park and Garden, Ickworth, The Rotunda, Horringer, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk

24th MAY 2005 - Chelsea Flower Show. fine-focus supported Constance Spry Flower School on their stand (Eastern Avenue EA81)

26th JUNE 2005 - Town twinning Fair, Hertford Castle, Hertford, Herts.

19th DECEMBER 2004 - Art & Crafts Fair - Lauderdale House, Highgate, North London.

11th DECEMBER 2004 - Christmas Craft at The Corn Exchange in Hertford, Herts.

4th & 5th DECEMBER 2004 - Christmas Craft at Hertford Castle, Hertford, Herts.

20th NOVEMBER 2004 - Christmas Craft Fair - Parmiter's School, Garston, near Watford, Herts.

28th - 29th NOVEMBER 2004 - Craft Fair at Cressing Temple Barns, Essex.

18th SEPTEMBER - 3rd OCTOBER 2004 - Hertfordshire Open Studios. fine-focus is also open year around by appointment. Please call us on 0845 266 1726 for more information or directions.

29 MAY - 26th SEPTEMBER 2004 - New Views at the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Claudine Fignon is one of is one of many photographers taking part in the New Views exhibition.

22nd APRIL 2004 - Another new local outlet A selction of our flower canvases and framed prints are now on sale complementing the inspiring interior design collections at Carr & Berry in Bishop's Stortford, Herts. See local outlet section for more details.

4th MARCH 2004 - NOVEMBER 2004 Work on display at Artshed, Ware, Herts.

12th FEBRUARY 2004 - New Gallery section Often wondered what our plant and flower photographs would really look like as prints and canvases? Want to see the difference between our gloss and matt canvas finish? Can't visualise our sizes or curious as to what our mounted prints look like in a frame? All these questions and more answered with the addition of our new gallery section >> Click here to browse our displays! The gallery also includes a sneak preview of Nigel Simpson's splendid solid wood frames, which will be available to purchase online soon.

2nd FEBRUARY 2004 - Canvases, cards and NEW framed prints now available at Woolatt and Coggin in Ware, Herts >> Click here for more details fine-focus has recently got together with framer Nigel Simpson who has created a special range of frames to compliment our prints. Watch this space for more information and pictures. Framed prints will be available to purchase online soon.

1st NOVEMBER 2003 NEW! See our flower images printed onto perspex at The Glassery in East Barnet! - Together with The Glassery, fine-focus is pleased to offer our images printed onto toughened glass or acrylic made to measure as feature windows or room divides >> Click here for more details

23rd SEPTEMBER 2003 - fine-focus at the Hertford Garden Festival in this week's Hertfordshire Mercury Thanks to everyone who came to see us on our stand at the Hertford Garden Festival at Hertford Castle. It was a fantastic day; the sun shining making the castle gardens the ideal place to spend a Sunday afternoon! >> click here to see the Mercury article about the festival.

9th SEPTEMBER 2003 - fine-focus appears in this week's Hertfordshire Mercury Claudine is interviewed by the Hertfordshire Mercury about fine-focus.com and her exhibition in the Hertfordshire gallery. >> click here to see the Mercury article

28th AUGUST 2003 - fine-focus in the news
Claudine is interviewed by newspaper the Herald in connection with her new exhibition in Hertford. To see the full article, >> click here to see the Herald article

1st AUGUST 2003 - Claudine's work displayed in exhibition at The Hertfordshire Gallery Starting on the 1st August, a selection of our flower and plant prints and canvases will be on display at the Hertfordshire Gallery, Hertfordshire Graphics in St Andrew Street, Hertford. To see a selection of the images that will be on display, >> click here. To see Claudine with her work, >> click here.

The exhibition is free to all, so do pop along and have a look, especially if you've been wondering what on earth a photograph looks like when you put it onto canvas anyway...