Buying art

What a coincidence! Have been looking at Artfinder online this morning! Some very different work and affordable! Auntieflo those etchings are lovely.

I go for paintings of mountains/lochs usually. When I retired someone suggested a painting for me and I was taken to a local gallery and chose a beautiful watercolour of one of our "Fairy Glens". I remember buying a water colour at a local car boot and the lady asked if it was for the frame or the picture. She was the artist and said many buyers just wanted the frames! My walls have always been a bit crowded and after we down-sized we couldn't use the bath for a long time as it was my storage area (luckily we had an en-suite). We had left behind a long hall and big staircase so I really had to part with some - it was hard!!!

Gabriella,I loved the first painting you displayed, the sort you can gaze at again and again, and see something more each time.

Thank you for all your comments. I plan to look properly at the photos you posted in order to offer intelligent? comments myself. They all look fascinating and I wonder what a psychologist would make of our choices.

Paintings/pictures personalise a home. There was a thread recently re Sister Wendy where I commented that I looked for an emotional reaction to a painting rather than an intellectual appreciation of it. All our pictures hit that spot for me. Lovely!

We have one large painting by Dylan Isaac, we went to buy his Manchester Town Hall but it had already gone so we bought one of his new collection.
The rest of our art is either prints, or originals painted by Mr I, or by friends or family.
I suspect some would find our walls rather too decorated but I love it.

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Where did the pictures go?

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I have two etchings? that I bought from an old book shop in London when I worked there in the 1960’s. They are in cheap old frames, and are signed on the back. I would quite like to know more about the artist, but haven’t got around to it yet!!
DH was never too keen on them, too stern, he said. I think they are more of the serene type.
Anyway, they are in our lounge and I don’t think I will ever part with them, as I’ve had them over 50 years now.

Jane 10 like you, I also like the Scottish colourists and artwork by the Glasgow Boys.
I’ve been fortunate to inherit several pieces and in the past, buy a couple.
I’m always on the look out for an unrecognised painting in a charity or junk shop! ( I wish!)

My very absolute favourite picture in our house has been in my possession for nearly 60 years. It is a large framed print of a painting in the Louvre (I’ve never managed to find the original) by the artist Foujita. It has always hung in my bedroom and it is the one I would save if there was an emergency. We have some paintings of value but this one is, to me, priceless. As for purchasing art, buy what you like as unless you are spending over £10k the work is not going to seriously increase in value.

We love our paintings and etchings. In fact we've had to stop going to galleries as we've no wall space left! I'd post some favourites but keep being told insufficient memory to do it. Very odd as I can post pics on Facebook and Twitter. Anyway, our taste appears to be for Scottish 20th century colourists. My favourite painter is JD Fergusson but no chance of buying one of his paintings due to astronomical cost. However, we did find a small charcoal sketch of his which I treasure.
Each of our pictures gives me such pleasure. Sometimes we move them around so we can 'look' at them afresh in a new location. Sorry to go on. Its just a subject close to my heart.

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This old chap came from my Scottish grandfather, I would love to think he was an ancestor!
The sketch is of my late FIL by his sister and the oil by a well known Frenchman who was also a D-day hero and a family friend.
All our pieces have some personal connection which makes them very special.

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We have many many paintings including this West Highland oil which Paw bought himself about 8 years ago. At the time I said it would have to be his birthday and Christmas presents for the nex 10 years. Others are by family friends or paintings we have inherited.
I have some lovely framed set and costume designs by my DD who is a theatre designer and some by Sis in law, a costume designer and costume historian.
I am also fond of a small sculpture which SIL gave Paw for Christmas a couple of years ago but sadly his work is way out of my league.
Always so pleased when I hear of people buying work by “real” artists instead of off the shelf from the likes of John Lewis.

Gabriella I recently bought a lino print at the Watts Gallery, Compton which is just up the road from me, .. spontaneous ..because I really liked it and it reminds me of the local area where I go walking.
I have an original piece I bought in Bristol by a young woman artist , Malak Mattar.
I have two other originals by Leila Simes which belonged to my dad, and then my dad's paintings too. He was an amateur..but I like his work.

I also like Jack Vettriano.

GG54 if you ever get the chance to go to “Le Manoir” in Oxfordshire they have a Jack Vettriano “suite” It’s stunning!

I love seascapes by Nel Whatmore a Yorkshire artist. She also paints flowers and landscapes. If anyone is interested check her website.

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The paintings are below.