Art on your walls...

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Uriel

3,244 posts

252 months

Thursday 12th June 2014
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My favourite piece by Hans Sures:







Want this one next smile



Though what I'd really love is this, but not available frown



kazste

5,679 posts

199 months

Thursday 12th June 2014
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This is my small collection,





I really hope he didn't do it!



Currently this is not on a wall, just gathering dust. Really need to either put it somewhere or sell it.



Another Motorsport related one, currently in the gym.



Apologies about the angle but kept getting reflection, this is also in the gym facing you as you go in.



This is facing the bed in the master bedroom, I love it and spend a great deal of time noticing something new every time I see it, even after three years.







These three are side by side in the hall way, and at the end of the hallway are....



And



All these are done by Rebecca Lardner, who not only is very talented but is also an extremely pleasant lady to spend a while talking to.



This one used to be a house but sadly the sun has faded the windows and the door, the artist keeps asking for it back to re touch it and I really should let him.



Same artist as above, and below. A really nice chap from Nottingham who has a shop near hugo boss.



This is actually the artists jeans which was used as a palate he thought it looked different and mounted it, apparently a few people tried to buy but he wouldn't, when we went to see him it was raining and he didn't want to go to a cash point so he sold it me!



Last one, and my favourite as it was painted by my mum. Took up painting about two years ago and some of her paintings I'm not to sure about but I think this is really nice.

Hope I've not bored anyone, if you feel like commenting either good or bad then I'm happy to read.

RichB

51,605 posts

285 months

Thursday 12th June 2014
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Here's one of mine...

p.s. It's by Jeremy Houghton official artist at the Olympics and other stuff http://www.jeremyhoughton.co.uk/News/default.asp?b...





Edited by RichB on Thursday 12th June 21:11

renmure

4,251 posts

225 months

Thursday 12th June 2014
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I guess much of my wall art isn't actually too artistic in detail but is never boring to look and often, the closer you look the more interesting it gets.

An original "key" map by Taylor and Skinner (1776) showing the individual roads they surveyed and mapped in Scotland



With 3 of the original hand coloured maps of some of my more local roads, again from 1776. These would have been used the same way as a modern road atlas by a horse rider who would carry them as a scroll and unfurl them as the journey progressed



An original hand coloured promotional item from the International Exhibition of Science, Art and Industry from 1886



A pair of John Speed maps of Scotland from 1610 and 1652 (map detail is constant but the side decoration changed as the political circumstances altered)



Some others, the earliest dated 1598










Nick_MSM

681 posts

187 months

Thursday 12th June 2014
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MarqueMe said:
Love that! I could stare at it for hours.

I don't know if it's the effects of a (small) laptop screen but it looks almost 3 Dimensional, as if it curves in and out and has body; I can pretty much imagine holding the 'substance' of it and feel the form and 'body' of it, especially when I start the gaze from the centre. Don't know if that was intended, but works for me!
You're right, it does 'pop' in the flesh too - it's very typical of his work from the 1950s. I think I prefer this one to the other William Gear I have. Google the 'Cobra' group of artists if you like this sort of thing, Gear was part of this along with Stephen Gilbert who I like.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COBRA_(avant-garde_mo...

Matt Harper

6,621 posts

202 months

Thursday 12th June 2014
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Here's a few of mine - please excuse freaky angles - required to minimize ugly (my) reflection



"Castrol Cat" by Sebring Turn 10 legend, Lee Self



"Thunder and Lightning" by Nicholas Watts



Pencil portrait of my daughter, aged six, by John Higgins



Various Stuart Hirst - L-R Girlington, Howarth and Saltaire



Pastel skyscape, drawn by my 82 year old Mum, last year

magooagain

10,005 posts

171 months

Thursday 12th June 2014
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CAPP0

19,601 posts

204 months

Thursday 12th June 2014
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magooagain said:
Hmm, interesting, what's the story there? Are you/were you a fccuker?

vixen1700

23,003 posts

271 months

Friday 20th June 2014
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Saw an old mate a couple of weeks back who now lives in Switzerland and saw some work by Christoph Hueppi who he knows and it's fantastic, I'm hoping to get one soon. I particularly like the Microorganisms and Spontaneous Mutation ones. They really leap out at you when you see them in the flesh, amazing how all the dots become three dimensional.

My mate's daughter is trying to arrange a London exhibition for him.

http://christoph-hueppi.ch/

smile

Edited by vixen1700 on Friday 20th June 10:40

shep1001

4,600 posts

190 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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I guess the beauty of art is in the eye of the beholder sometimes. Had a flick through the pages on this thread and there is some still I like and some that I think are tosh. My thing is Caroline Shotton cows - Those eyes watching you all round the lounge creaps some people out!!




I also have this one, which I got a month or so ago. A gift from the partner of a fellow Pistonheader who I have never met or spoke to in person only seen on threads of the hallowed Pistonheads! Its Millie AKA 'Waste bin cat"



Edited by shep1001 on Saturday 21st June 08:02

parakitaMol.

11,876 posts

252 months

Saturday 21st June 2014
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Some of my 3d

Jess Eaton - resin heart and pheasant feathers


Rohan Chhabra - Deer skull sculpture - planter


Unknown - ram skull


pmanson

13,382 posts

254 months

Sunday 3rd August 2014
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Couple of recent additions for us:

Kealy Farmer 'Our Hangout' original:






And awaiting framing:




softtop

3,058 posts

248 months

Tuesday 5th August 2014
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shep1001 said:
I guess the beauty of art is in the eye of the beholder sometimes. Had a flick through the pages on this thread and there is some still I like and some that I think are tosh. My thing is Caroline Shotton cows - Those eyes watching you all round the lounge creaps some people out!!

I do like the Cow pictures. Are they a passing phase or do you see them as long term paintings, are they original or prints?

Earthboundmisfit

467 posts

219 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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Here is a selection of mine. Mostly music related and black and white photos of my girls.




Trustmeimadoctor

12,637 posts

156 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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pmanson said:
And awaiting framing:

space ship !!!!!!!!

Where from id love one of those !!

deevee

323 posts

215 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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Some nice work on this thread!

I've become increasingly interested in different media recently - have a couple of pieces from these guys:

Alistair Gibson

and

Keith Haynes

Will pop some photos up if people are interested

Earthboundmisfit

467 posts

219 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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deevee said:
Some nice work on this thread!

I've become increasingly interested in different media recently - have a couple of pieces from these guys:

Alistair Gibson

and

Keith Haynes

Will pop some photos up if people are interested
Keith's stuff is right up my street. Thanks for sharing.

parakitaMol.

11,876 posts

252 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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RichB said:
Here's one of mine...

p.s. It's by Jeremy Houghton official artist at the Olympics and other stuff http://www.jeremyhoughton.co.uk/News/default.asp?b...





Edited by RichB on Thursday 12th June 21:11
Jeremy Houghton was our guest artist at out exhibition last year. Shame he took an entire gallery space but I think he only sold 1 piece.

parakitaMol.

11,876 posts

252 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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Paul Wheeler



Caroline Yates



Unknown



Georg Belwe 1905 poster



Kurt Hutton 1938

pmanson

13,382 posts

254 months

Wednesday 3rd September 2014
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Trustmeimadoctor said:
pmanson said:
And awaiting framing:

space ship !!!!!!!!

Where from id love one of those !!
They're from the guys at Evergreen Art Cafe in Daventry:

http://evergreenartcafe.co.uk/art/profile/james-pa...

It's the set of four. Was talking to the owner at Evergreen today and the artist is now doing commissions! I fancy a F1 driver or similar next