Deep Singh

Hello.

My walls are very bare and would like to put up some 'art'

I'd quite like to avoid buying stuff from the usual hight street stores because everybody will have the same!

I'm NOT talking about rare or expensive stuff and don't mind whether its prints, photos or other formats.

It would also be nice to buy it over the internet as that would save me journies.

Any ideas? I

BlkKnight

Depends what you are into.

I've had some good pieces off ebay (shock).

Most are by budding artists who use it as their outlet.

Yes, there's a lot of crap on there. . . .

HankScorpio

Art.co.uk - Posters, Art Prints, and Framed Art Leader. funnily enough

Used them a few times and have a hell of a range, some the same as high street, some more unusual

austinwrx

PJK Art and Poetry Gallery, Skipton.

my father's art gallery

stock changes all the time and its full of weird and wonderful things.

what are you after: could maybe send some sample images of items of interest ?

email details on the site

CowbitSpecD

Try Art Prints, Posters & Canvas Art - Easyart.com

WRX_Dazza

this is a great website

WRX_Dazza

get this to impress your friends...

Midlife......

iTrader: (2)

I used to "borrow" pictures from the local council run art gallery, just the same as borrowing a book from the library

You obviously don't get to keep it, none of the art is famous but was as cheap as chips and filled a few blank spaces LOL

Shaun

goonerbear

Try these Welcome to Bohemia Galleries online, we know the people who own it and their very friendly and not at all snobby,which can be the case a lot of the time. We have purchased several originals (Terri Hallman, not to every ones taste but we love her work) from them and they offer the 0% interest scheme run by own art. Bear in mind its always better to see in the flesh if possible and a cheap old frame can ruin a piece.Most importantly always remember buy what you like.

Bubba po

Furniture paintings.

jods

Go to Venice etc and buy local artists work - Original and not necessarily expensive

Deep Singh

Thanks guys. Lots of leads there, I'll have a good look once I've done all my weekend domestics

Leslie

We have always found that the best thing was to get whatever appealed to us at the time, regardless of what anyone else thought. We find we have never got tired of our pictures etc. and they were not expensive.

Les

tarmac terror

iTrader: (2)

my other half has been drawing and painting the female form to match the decor of individual rooms for a couple of years. It provides a nice source of pocketmoney and they look well on the wall. Each one is unique and comparable in cost to the mass produced stuff you would buy in homebase or B&Q which everyone has.

The most popular ones are female drawn sitting, standing or lying down, against a block of colour on the canvas which matches the colour your walls are painted.

Let me know if you are interested.

AsifScoob

I considered actually getting part of the wall itself painted as a piece of art.

This was in my old house and I never did because it was not a place I was going to live in for a long time.

Would need to be commissioned, but you can do this for not a lot of money. Has the advantage of being quite unique and completely different. This might suit what you have been trying to do with your place for quite some time now?

I remember seeing a amazing house in SI NY that had a huge paint design across part of the front of the house and it blew me away.

Asif

spireite

I've seen a very nice portrait of Amir Khan on canvas

Zammo McGuire

zs_phil

iTrader: (1)

got one of ours from here

eBay UK Shop - Acryliks Shop: Paintings, Gemälde, Acrylgemälde

stevebt

iTrader: (8)

I have a card somewhere from some artist I saws at the fringe fair. His work was a lowry style but impressed me and he would also do request. I think his paintings were about £400 for say a 2ft canvas

Deep Singh

Thanks guys, haven't had time to really look into these as I'm snowed under at the moment but will do very soon

Turbohot

I have some friends who buy art from art galleries. To them, buying art from known artists is an investment too. To me, I buy what catches my eyes, it doesn't have to be by someone known. Even the suitability of the piece to my interior is not important, if the work is outstanding. My walls have to adjust with it I don't like prints.

Hope you find some good stuff, Deep. Some cool suggestions here from people that I would quite like to browse, even when I don't need them LOL. Art is always interesting.

Dream Weaver

Small world, we go in there whenever we go to Skipton, in fact I have a nice multi coloured plate we got there sat near me now

To Deep, depends how much you want to spend, we looked at some Paul Kenton stuff on Saturday in Manc, really nice for around £600 each - it was his new Paris and NYC stuff, painted using a screwdriver apparently!!

Welcome to the Official Website of Paul Kenton - Contemporary Artist