Your favourite piece of art in your home

Mine is a piece of Lladro that I bought in Majorca many years ago. It isn’t the familiar blue and white. It’s a beautiful deer head about 45cm tall. I love it. This is a stock photo from eBay. Each one is slightly different depending on how the glazing ended up. I call mine Dusty - because I once noticed some cobwebs between her ears as I’d obviously not been very timely with my domestics!!!

My sister gave me a print, probably done in the 1970s, of the frontage of the Glasgow School of Art...before it burned down. A beautiful art nouveau building. But it's signed by the artist. Avril Paton - who I met and played with when we were on holiday in Arran; when I was nine and she was eight!
That's my all time favourite.

But above my desk I also have a colour print, a small portrait of a lady from Pompeii - before the eruption in AD 79. She's holding a stylus and a wooden tablet with wax to write on...
Encouraging. Women wrote even then.

I haven't got any personal absolute favourites, we do have quite a few pictures I like. My mother loved Lowry, and I've now got the one she had in her living room and it's a comfort because it reminds me of her often as does her book of Monet's work another of her favourite artists.

I bought a print of this cartoon just after the Millenium, I like the humour of the artist who went to an art school that was fairly local at one time.

Its hard to choose my Ditchfield early pieces or my lalique , and I quite like my clarice too

I painted this watercolour some years ago and just love it!

I also love my Jack Vetriano limited edition

My favourite piece is a print my daughter bought for me of the words to “ One Day Like This” by my favourite group Elbow. My mum loved this song too and we sing it at my community choir. So the words are very special.
I have seen them in Manchester, Leeds, Nottingham, London, York, Dalby Forest on many occasions. My dream is to see them when they perform abroad. I love in hope!

Ooh, how lovely nahsma - are you in Abergavenny?

Casdon

I can see Pen y Fan from my front windows Aldom, I’m a bit further away than your husband was, though.
This is my favourite, it’s an original watercolour of children on the beach at Concarneau.

I'm looking out on Skirrid Fach as I write, and when I go to make some tea I shall see Blorenge!

I don't respond to visual art as,strongly as I do to music and literature. So my favourite pictures are by people I have loved: my FiL, my sister and my best friend. I give thanks for their artistic gift.

This is a piece Imlove, very unlike our Luther more traditional art. My husband found it in a skip in thevNetherlands, a signed, numbered print.

One of my DDs is an artist so I have plenty of her work around the house which changes frequently. One of my favourites is a self portrait by one of my DGC who did it for one of her A level pieces. It’s gorgeous.

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Favourites change all the time...all mine.

I mixed up this thread with the very similar one. I’d like the Canova but it’s not actually living in the corner of my sitting room!

I’d like the marble statue of Cupid and Psyche by Canova.
I used to have a photograph of it hanging on my stairs and little granddaughter asked in wonder, ‘Is that a real fairy?’

Probably my favourite picture - it’s at the bottom of the stairs. No one else in the family likes it!

A water colour by an unknown dutch artist. I love that little painting, it used to hang in my grandparents big square hallway, always deep in edwardian gloom. My sister tells me it needs to be professionally cleaned, I like it as it is! It takes me straight back to the days spent at their house when I was a little girl.

Suffolk, East Anglia farm.

I have 2 large paintings on my kitchen wall of pears. DD took photos of 18c French watercolours on her last trip to S France. She enlarged them and had them printed onto a linen effectn paper and simply framed..I love them. She always manages to find me small seaside watercolours in brocantes on her trips.
I love all types of seaside paintings especially the Impressionists.

There are several and they all have a personal connection but the one I like best is a watercolour of the creek at low tide at Solva. We bought it at an exhibition there of local artists. As we had walked there, DH had to carry it all the way back along the coast path to St David’s with a strongish wind blowing! It hangs in our bedroom and is the very first thing I see every morning. It reminds me of some of the best times of our lives.

We have a lot of watercolours by local artists and all of them have a story and are very special to me.

We have a set of 6 beautiful watercolour landscapes of the Buckingham countryside painted in the early years of the 20th century.

They come from DH's family and were a gift from the artist to his sister, who was the aunt who raised FiL, after his mother died.

I absolutely love them and they take pride of place in our dining room. It has been nice to discover that the artist's recognition is growing. He was recently described as the best painter of horses in his time (early 20th century). I was delighted to read this because we have two hunting scenes in our set and I have always thought how well the horses are painted.

I can’t even pick a favourite from this lovely lot let alone one of my own! Quite a lot of ours are by family members and friends and some have hung in the Royal Academy in London as DH’s (many times) great uncle was an academician, as was a late friend. But just as precious as those are the beautiful Irish water colour by my uncle and the view of an African village by DH’s Mum.

My Grandfather was a groom for a large country estate in Yorkshire. I inherited an oil painting of a gorgeous horse he was responsible for. It was given to him as a thankyou from the owner

My mother's and my elder daughter's paintings.

Not really art but it is framed and hanging up. It’s a photograph of The Beatles and signed by them all. I was at a fan club party in 1963 in London and they were there of course. I sat at a table with them and chatted away while they signed this photo. I even got a chaste kiss on the cheek from George Harrison. They weren’t that famous then, the fan club was quite small. There was a concert afterwards which we all enjoyed.