If you are a collector, at any level, beginners to accomplished, you are not just an art buyer, you actually have an extremely important role in the future history of art. Let me tell you why…. A large proportion of our love of art stems from history – from getting glimpses into the past through…
Whether its been in the family for generations, or a piece you saved up for weeks or months to buy; whether it was a gift to yourself or others – an original piece of art, is definitely the ‘gift that keeps on giving’. The gift of Original Art has layers of wonderment. Art is a…
You will often hear the phrase that art is an appreciating asset. This is largely true, because, by its very nature art is something that is original, one off, hand made, unique and most likely to hold its value or rise as time passes by. Sometimes this is true of the strangest looking, ugliest items…
Its just an object …. often a normal item we mostly see every day. Why is that this object becomes suddenly so alluring as a still life subject matter? Is it the fact that it tells its own story? That the story itself eludes us and we have to rewrite it in our own heads?…
Mark Eldred truly is a master of oils. We are forever mesmerised by his abilities to paint a scene quite so realistic, that you feel transported from wherever you are, to within that peaceful forest walk, to walking along that striking cliff side or to almost inhaling the smells of a marvellous avenue of flowers….
It has to be said that this has been a tremendous week at The Gallery, what with the arrival of some fabulous new artwork from Gillian Murphy, Ruth Wood, Padraig McCaul and Eadaoin Harding Kemp, three stunning new paintings from the master of oils, Mark Eldred, a very striking and three amazing new artworks from…
