Have you got a favourite artist?

[FrayedKnot]

I am looking for some inspiration...

I want to get a couple of prints - can;t afford "real" art...

Inspire me, please!

Please come and talk art to me

Oooo, I LOVE Anita Klein. Her prints are adorable. They aren't toooooo expensive, depends what size but you'd pay about £80-£300 for one. All her work is autobiographical about her, her dh and her dc. I love it.

I also like Charlotte Cornish, really different style to Klein. Lots of colour!

What kind of thing do you like?

Klimt, the odd bit of Dali, Rembrant's pencil sketches

SIL got me a gorgeous picasso pencil sketch of mother and child when I had dd1. I'll try and find it.

Lovely recommendations happimummy! What kind of thing do you like FK?

Not particulary sought after any more but William Russell Flint and his posing models are my favourites

hm I like the Anita Klein prints etc - but this is for my living room and they are not quite what I had in mind..

The Charlotte Cornish stuff is a bit too abstract

I do like lots of different styles but just feeling a bit bewlidered as have been on this site

here

for ideas and I don;t know where to start!

I want to move away from the obvious stuff. I do have a soft spot for Klimt Bwbeast but just want something a bit more unusual / less wellknown, I think

I do like pencil / pen sketch type things

I sooo don;t have the vocab to discuss art

This guy is a former colleague of my dh's who took up painting a few years ago and is now making a living at it.
Much of his stuff is a bit dull but sometimes he really hits the spot and you can get prints of some of them, though the link on his site doesn't seem to be working.

i like Dali,
that's all i can say on the matter.

this is the one I have in my bedroom right now and I love it. I love the practice hands, I love the pose.

I like this - it's called carnation lily lily rose by Sargent

Do you like Georgia O'Keeffe?

ooh that's lovely hc

This is my favourite picture but you really don't get the impact online. here The thing about Vermeer is he could paint light. And you need to see the picture to experience it.

I've just bought an etching (ooh arr) by Peter Wareham - in a similar vein to the magnolia one. The picture I have looks very Japanese. I was at an arts fair and it was the ONLY work I actually needed to own and take home for my very own.

Harpsi, did you ever read The Family at One End Street? The eldest girl was called Lily Rose after that painting.

Have you gone to a local gallery and had a look around?? You can pick up some lovely prints, not too expensive, original art though and unique.

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I have this in my bedroom and love it - so sensuous and yet restful and serene

LOL McEdam - that's exactly what I thought of when I saw it!
Wasn't it a narrow escape from her being called Carnation, or something?

That's right, had forgotten that bit!

i read the family at one end street, loved it but can't remember anything about it now - it was a long time ago mind!

yes I did and I had forgotten about that! god I loved those books. I wonder if that is why I was drawn to it in the Tate

harpsi - I LOVE that painting. It's magical.

< I've never seen any G'O'Keefe before - it's all terribly......vulval, isn't it? Or do I have a twisted eye?

gosh yes Georgia O'Twinkle we call her in this house
was Lily Rose the erm plump girl who did the ironing with the iron too hot and made the posh nightie melt?