Your favourite piece of art in your home

Mine isn’t a work of art as such. It’s one of the photos of Endurance.
Endurance was the ship that my hero Earnest Shackelton took to the Antarctic.
Having read everything there is to read on the subject it still gets to me and knowing what the ship’s photographer went through to get the glass plates ( the photos) when It was obvious that Endurance couldn’t be saved makes it more poignant.

Quite possibly Aldom, it’s a small world in rural communities like this!

Casdon I wouldn't be surprised if we discovered we had people in common!

pea007

Aldom I have a similar painting. Your husband and I must be from the same area as that was the view from my bedroom window on my family farm when I was a child.

How lovely pea007
My late husband's boyhood home is now an Adventure Farm.
Several years ago I saw a news item featuring Prince Charles visiting the farm.
You probably know of it.

When I was in hospital there was a dreadful, depressing picture opposite my bed. I'd wake up each day to see three rotting old boats falling to pieces on a muddy shore on a wet day.

Rosiebee

This painting is opposite our bed, so first thing I see each morning. Breeze blowing curtains through an open window, overlooking the sea. I love it. My dream is to live in a house with a view of the sea. I think this is the nearest I will get.

I love pictures like this Rosiebee. Who couldn’t be happy to wake up and look at that 😃

LucyAnna5

Ooh, how lovely nahsma - are you in Abergavenny?

Yes, I'm so lucky, I can see hills from every window!

This painting is opposite our bed, so first thing I see each morning. Breeze blowing curtains through an open window, overlooking the sea. I love it. My dream is to live in a house with a view of the sea. I think this is the nearest I will get.

Alie2Oxon

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.

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...

That would make me want to weep!

nahsma

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!

Lucky you!!
I have climbed both but probably couldn't any more.

IamMaz

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!!!

🥰 I love it

mae13

The Mona Lisa, naturellemènt.

😁
Are you the Parisian mastermind art thief ?

Ijustwantpeace2020

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

Nice one.

Thank you, yes.

I've done conceptual and controversial work but definitely not on my walls.

Wyllow3. Are the 3 your own work? If so they are excellent. I love the central one especially.

Is that Newborough beach Wetnosewheatie? My favourite beach of all beaches.

I have two. The first is a copper planter covered in strange birds and plants. It was in my grandparent's house and I always loved it. It wasn't till 20 years ago that it was actually a piece of Newlyn Copper, by a well known artist, and actually quite valuable. My other treasure is an etching by Elizabeth Frink. It's an unsigned proof and had rather shady origins involving my father in law1 Being unsigned it's value is minimal, but it's still a print pulled from her original plate.

The Mona Lisa, naturellemènt.

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My favourite picture and the dancers in my fireplace. I do have pictures but my home is full of the family in frames which I change every now and then. Dancers and dancing features in my home.

Sago A bronze bust of Voltaire, I adore him

Our happy place Llanddwyn Island by Janet Bell

Aldom I have a similar painting. Your husband and I must be from the same area as that was the view from my bedroom window on my family farm when I was a child.

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First is I'll de Re by Mark Buck.
Second is Stone Bridge signed limited edition by Bob Dylan

The picture in question.

My favourite picture is a black and white print, dated 1976, of a string quartet in rehearsal by Siegbert Reinhardt, which is in my music room and bought from a charity shop several years ago. I paid around £6 for it but it turns out to be quite collectable, although I didn't know it at the time l.