MEET THE TEAM
MEET THE TEAM
Louis Marshall
Louis was born in Leicester in 1992, and grew up in the quaint and quiet villages of South Leicestershire, near Market Harborough. In school, he was always a lively contributor (although that may have been received differently, depending on the teacher) but he became interested in two disciplines - the creative arts and maths and science.
In 2011, he went off to study Mathematics in Cardiff, where he spent three years living and studying. It was here where he discovered that, of his cohort of 60 studying pure maths, he was the only member doing so for the love problem solving and logical puzzles, so it became clear a career in actuary or accounting or finance was possibly not on the cards for him.
After graduating, he took up a position at a fledgling garden centre, and for 6.5 years, he helped develop it into a multimillion pound enterprise. He then moved on to focus more on sales and marketing at a company called Furniture Loft, where he learned all there was to learn about marketing and first met Richard Kimbell, who put his faith in him, promoting him to Marketing Manager in 2021.
In 2022, he moved to a larger company, Red Gorilla International, an industry-leading plastic equipment manufacturer, where he was appointed their Marketing Manager, leading a team of four. This role gave him a wide range of experience he could not have got elsewhere.
After two years at Red Gorilla, Louis moved back to work for Richard, for his new company, Prints & Frames Ltd. as the Business Manager. Not only was it a step up, but Richard offered him the promise of working for a small company and learning as much as he could teach about business.
It was a massive leap of faith, which he did not take lightly, but Louis' ambition has always been to own and operate his own business. This felt like one step closer to that dream.
Louis began working at Prints & Frames and oversaw the steady growth until January 2025, when, sadly, Richard passed away, all of a sudden, after having been hospitalised for just 6 days.
In the months after Richard's death, Louis made all the necessary arrangements to set up his own business, as he'd always wanted to do, and Framed Works was born. This was, in part, because he no longer had a 9 to 5 job to attend to, and so there was an opportunity to see if it could be done, and also, in part, because of the sheer potential that the business model of quick, efficient and reasonably priced framed prints offered as a simple but currently unserviced market offering.
In July 2025, all the preparatory work and funding applications paid off, and Framed Works started trading, with a fully functioning framing workshop in Kibworth, South Leicestershire (less than 5 miles from where Louis grew up). Armed with a wide variety of stock and state of the art equipment, purchased from Richard's estate, Louis assumed the role of Managing Director of Framed Works, putting all he'd learned to the ultimate test.
Sorin Mitoc
Sorin was born in rural Moldavia, in north-eastern Romania, in 1972, where he spent his early years living with his sheep farming Grandparents. Later on in his childhood, he moved with his parents and siblings to a flat in the town of Bǎlţǎteşti where he went to school, and excelled at English and Design Technology.
Once he graduated from High School in 1989, he enlisted in the Romanian Army, which he served in throughout his twenties, and travelled all around the country and the continent.
In 2005, Sorin met Silvia on a trip home to Bǎlţǎteşti, and within 5 months, they were married. Sorin characterises this as "a bit woohah, but we both knew it was love from the very start." ("woohah" being one of Sorin's unique and wonderful words, meaning a bit crazy or out of the ordinary. We all say it now!)
After being happily married for 6 years, Silvia was given the opportunity to move to the UK to work as a nurse, and so they decided that she would emigrate and see how things might go. Two years later, Sorin joined Sylvia in moving to Market Harborough, Leicestershire.
Having left the army to emigrate and reunite with Silvia, Sorin set about starting a whole new career, and initially took up agency work to pay the bills, which was when he first began working for Richard.
From 2014, onwards, Sorin worked for Richard at Furniture Barn, and then Furniture Loft, where he was the Warehouse Manager for nearly 8 years. In this time, he also trained under the in-house framer, Paul, in how to construct frames, cut mounts with a CMC machine, and operate and service all the state-of-the-art equipment required.
After many years of believing they were not able to have children, Silvia fell pregnant, and Sorin became a father, in 2018. He says this changed his entire perspective on life. To this day, Sorin walks his son to school every morning before work, and it's clear to see that he builds his whole world around his family.
Richard always made contingency for this in Sorin's contract, going so far as to specifically codify that his start time was 9:15am, to allow him sufficient time for the morning drop off, and Sorin returned the favour with his loyalty to Richard over the years.
When, in 2023, Richard set up Prints & Frames, he brought Sorin along with him as his head framer. Sorin spent the best part of two years there, and maintained his skills in framing, helping to set the entire workshop up, as well as training multiple colleagues in the art of framing, and overseeing the manufacture, packing and postage of all web orders.
Now, he has come on board as Framed Works' Production Manager, and he continues to maintain quality and standards for us, as he always has done in the past. He is friendly, fun, silly and hard working in equal measure, and the main reason we can offer our prints with complete confidence in the quality of build and finish as we do.