Featured Artists & Illustrations
| BanksyBanksy is Britain's most notorious and inventive "art terrorist" who specialises in sticking fake objects to the walls of major galleries and museums and waiting to see how long it takes for the curators to notice. |
| Blek Le RatIf you are thinking you have missed the boat / should have purchased BANKSY when you could have done - TAKE NOTE! This is the start of the prices rising for Blek Le Rat - who is Banksy's hero (see quote below) At the IMPORTANT Auction at Bonhams 5th Feb 2008 it was assumed by many that the Banksy pictures would fly away while the other artists would struggle yet one estimated at £3-5,000- fetched over £50,000 by Nick Walker , and BLEK's made great money too. THAT is the day that Urban Art came of age. Some of Banksy's prints are selling for more than an Original by Le Rat and these are going up.
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| Carel WeightWe currently have in stock a number of prints and original paintings. Born 1908, trustee of the Royal Academy and Senior Academician, Professor Emeritus RCA & Doctor of Art. Carel Weight is probably the most influential artist of the century. He studied at Goldsmiths as a youth and was set as a painter before he was made an Official War Artist. During his travels on behalf of (Sir) Kenneth Clarke as a war artist he saw the effect war had on streets and how quickly streets and places removed the signs of war even though the consequences on the people were lasting. He painted the images that had been seen but the traces removed. He became one of the most popular of all teachers at the Royal College of Art. His pupils include David Hockney, Peter Blake, Ron Kitaj etc. He was so important as he says, "his job was not to teach them how to paint - but to teach them how to paint what they want to paint". This is what made him such a great painter - a combination of willingness to help and an understanding that there are things that the normal person does not see even as they pass a place where something monumental has happened. A friend to many - he arranged to get Lowry elected to the Academy - and to numerous artists that he helped to fame, but he has never been a self publicist feeling he wants his friends to be able to afford and enjoy his pictures even though museums may be clamouring for them. Carel has exhibited at virtually every major venue worldwide. His work is in every important collection of Modern British art including HRH Queen Elizabeth, Tate Gallery, The Fitzwilliam and Ashmoleon Museums, Imperial War Museum, Vatican collection, British Museum. |
| Karolina Larusdottir(1944 - Present) She studied at the Sir John Cass College, London (1964-65), the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford (1965-67) and Barking College of Art (1977-80). She now lives and works in East Anglia.
Her watercolours, oil paintings and hand-made etchings are often inspired by her childhood in Iceland. Her grandfather's hotel in Reykjavik has provided a wealth of her ideas In Icelandic tradition everyone has their own personal , private Guardian Angel. Her work has a dry humour that is timeless and all she is painting is PEOPLE BEING THEMSELVES . She has won numerous awards and commissions. Commissions include , Icelandic Government for visiting dignitaries including Mary Robinson the (past) President of Ireland . Member of The New English Art Club, the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers The Royal Watercolour Society. She has illustrated books and then In 1993 her biography was published in Iceland and buyers can obtain a copy through us when they are available. Her work is featured in numerous private and public collections world-wide including those of The British Museum, London, The Vatican, H.M. Queen Elizabeth , The Cathedral in Rikjavik and the Icelandic National Collection. NOW Considered a leading light in the British Art world she is again exhibiting at the Royal Academy .
Her work is so saught after I'm not allowed to advertise it as collectors in Iceland buy by signature whereas in England they buy because they like the painting. This is an artist with works in presidential collections and is collected globally. |
| Mary FeddenA Beautiful painting by our foremost artist combining her love of colour and opera. |
| Nick WalkerBritish, born 1969 |
| Rupert the BearOriginally created for the Express Newspaper, Rupert the Bear is still a favourite with children of all ages! The works we have are divided into three groups:
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