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Galleries take anything up to 60% here. But 40% is the average plus s costs. Most now want you to pay for the space as well (rent). My last gallery went bust and took me for over 10ks and to make matters worst I had to pay the receiver $2,500 to get the work they had back.

Jeez! That’s just criminal.

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True, I was selling a few paintings a month, all of a sudden when things weren’t moving I rang to find out was was going on. After being told my work was no longer in “vogue” I started to question my ability. I later found out they were selling them, just not passing it on to me. They did have the hide to keep invoicing me for framing though.

That was almost 7 years ago, I’ve been reluctant to go anywhere near a gallery since.

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:astonished: Did you have no way to prosecute? Actually, scrub that. That probably would be more stressful than being fleeced in the first place. A really horrible story. How do you mainly sell your work now?

No, it was either pay the $2,500 or they’d auction off the work without my approval. Problem is the gallery (partly my fault as well) never kept a written record of work they had on commission.

Funny (although not that funny) enough my family’s company had a business that went bust the same year, and guess what, the same receivers where in place.

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Some lovely pieces in here.

Here is something I have by Paul Oz, limited to 49 pieces to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the moon landing.

I saw it in a gallery in a few years ago but ended up buying direct from the artist in the end. Lovely bloke to deal with.

Random fact; The gold flake seen on the visor is actually Kapton Foil (sourced from NASA) which is used to insulate space-craft.


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Great paint. Love it when it’s that thick. :+1:

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Looks good enough to eat.

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That’s really good. I’ve seen some of his work in our local gallery. I really liked one of Lewis Hamilton and another of the Joker. Not the kind of thing Mrs Marksnaim would like around the house unfortunately.

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I’ve been collecting for almost twenty years, initially the urban street art scene and more recently fine art - though to be honest, there’s a certain look I like which is mostly portraits. Are you on Instagram? Just after the first lockdown, someone set up the hashtag #artistpledge whereby artists advertise their art with price upto £200 - when the artist makes £1000 they pledge to buy another artists work. Its a really great idea and there’s some wonderful pieces to be picked up - it’s also a good way to get a feel as to what you like. Do reach out to the artist via messaging and build up a relationship and then deal directly. In my experience, the gallery will take 50% of any sale - deffo get in with the artist.

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I think the most important thing is, as @Pete_the_painter so rightly says, to buy what you like. It’s got to be something that somehow moves you every time you look at it, after all it will be hanging on your wall and become part of your life.

Paintings are so personal. Some people go for portraits while others go for landscapes, still life or abstracts.

It’s Mrs HH who buys art and she has studied it quite a bit. She has bought a few pieces from artists exhibiting on the local gallery trail, and a few from exhibitions. She also bought one from a fine art degree show.

Prompted by your post I had a look at Artfinder. The problem for me is that it’s very hard to get a feel of how something would look in your home. A thumbnail doesn’t really reflect what a picture four feet high will actually look like. You need to consider what the picture is painted with as they look very different - oil on canvas, watercolour, acrylic etc.

My favourite of her paintings is this, by the Cornish artist Neil Davies. She bought it at an exhibition in the gallery at Trelissick. You may like it or loathe it but either way it may help you to decide what sort of stuff you might actually want to own.

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For some reason I’d forgot to post this, it’s a work by David Gerstein. Mrs Pete and I bought this is Paris about 12 years ago. Think we paid over €1,600, and I’m sure it’s worth considerably more now. We were in San Francisco in 2015 he had a show and his works (they were bigger) were fetching over $100,000 US. It’s reversible.

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It’s a small World Pete :+1:t3: ATB Peter

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How long have you had yours

We bought this at a gallery in Denmark, when we were visiting friends about 5 years ago. This on the promise, that Id never need to buy my wife flowers again. But that aspect softy me never really worked out… :hugs: We love his colours and it’s’ different ‘. ATB Peter

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That’s a crack up I bought it for the same reason, and she lied. :rofl::rofl::rofl::thinking:

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Then 2 years later we bought this original drawing by Danish artist Michael Kvium visiting the same old friends. We also have a large painting by him in my listening room. We love his boundary pushing work and would have more by him, if it wasn’t for the prices.
You should check him out as some of his works are humongously big and always highly symbolic/ mind boggling ATB Peter

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There you go Pete :flushed: ATB Peter ( view from hall way)

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I bought my wife some flowers for her 65th birthday .

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Pete/peter.
They are amazing.
What are they made of?

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