Artwork Creations can offer you in excess of 15 main variations of glass, mirror and plastics.

Fading of colour is by far the most common cause for damage to artwork. Unlike other forms of damage it cannot be reversed.

Fading is increased by exposure to light, humidity and temperature changes.

The best way to minimise this damage is to use a glazing product with an Ultra Violet filter (U. V. Filtering).

The highest quality products can filter 98% of UV radiation. You are best advised to use this glazing on anything that has either actual, or sentimental value.

One word of warning – signatures, particularly those written on fabric such as football shirts, are usually the first things to fade and can drastically reduce their value.

Sometimes reflections can be so bad you can hardly see the artwork at all and the bigger the picture the worse this tends to be.

To minimise reflections consider an Anti-reflective product.

There are varying qualities, most clients are familiar with non-reflective glass (diffused glass) which tends to be acid-etched usually on one side, when light hits it, it is bounced back in various directions, minimising reflections.

This tends to dull or grey artwork and the further it is placed away from the image, the greater the effect. It can be an enhancement on softly focussed images etc. but generally it is not ideal.

A better solution is to use an optically coated glass which gives incredible clarity and absolute minimal reflections, often it looks as though there is no glass present at all, hence its nickname “No Glass”