about

Vashon Island Framery was founded by Victoria Hunter, CPF in 2021 to meet the framing needs of Vashon Island. A resident of the island since 2013, Victoria is excited to fill a need to the community and get to know more folks through framing.

Vashon Island Framery is a proud member of the Professional Picture Framers Association (PPFA) which is the professional association for the picture framing industry. We also recognize the value in continuing education, and so frequently attend video speaker series on a variety of topics by experts, as well as attending national conferences filled with workshops. This adds up to over thirty hours of additional education throughout the year in topics varying from history to design to preservation and conservation to shadowboxes and mounting to new ideas for modern frames. Victoria is also a Certified Picture Framer through the PPFA.

Outside of framing Victoria is an artist as well, currently completing her thesis year at the Photo Center NW in Seattle. A long time photographer, she is particularly interested in historical and alternative processes such as wet plate collodion and photogravure. When not at her shop, she can frequently be found working in her darkroom testing old cameras and film, or in her sewing studio working on historical costumes for her current self portraiture series. She is also the coauthor of guidebooks with her sister. Their first book, Walking the Fife Pilgrim Way, was published in 2024 by Cicerone and covers a 64 mile walk in Scotland.