art in your home

[puppydavies]

does anyone buy art? commission paintings? collect sculpture? i'm curious who - if anyone - buys art for their home, and what draws them to choose what they do.

i just ordered some photographic prints from an online contact i've long admired. i have very little money and even less space so it's not something i do often but sometimes i can't help myself. you can pick up prints (photographic or screen) for just a few £ from someone just starting out and i like the idea that i'm giving more than just verbal appreciation and support for people's work.

tell me what's on your walls (or plinths ) and how it came to be there.

nightynight -I have a lot of moments when I see things I really like but sometimes I don't "like it enough" for the price tag or can see myself getting bored of it after a while IYSWIM.

The "GOT to have it" ones are, thankfully , more rare as the price tag becomes irrelevant.

i have tons of stuff up - a print from a 1926 chicago transit authority poster advertising the 'l' (my granpa worked for London transport and i picked up the print visiting friends in chicago) a van gogh/gaughin exhibition poster pf the bloody sunflowers - again picked up in chicago. a rothko prin. a repro of saw ohm ngun(?)an asian girl in a pink eiderdown that my mum had above her bed when i was little - i found this one in a second hand shop in glasgow for £6. a couple of my own paintings (watercolours, kind of lo-brow tattooety things)a couple of original drawings by marcus grey a reasonably well know pin-up fetish artist. my stairs have lots of photos of my children. oh a print of the swagger portrait at the tate.

i can't afford originals and wish my local gallery participated in 'artforall' as there are a couple of beuatiful huge oils that i crave. thats why my original works are mine and friends...

mg: it must make the decision to purchase a much easier one if you have a track record of picking "winners" financially. the confidence that you're not spending so much as saving/investing. how much fun must that be as a hobby

please do share your upcoming names - i used to work in a photography gallery so am curious whether anyone i know/worked with has your tip for the top!

ooh betty (lol) your "got to have it" one sounds like something i'd like. the prints i just bought are of trees, taken with a toy camera that makes everything slightly distorted and dreamlike.

glad to see more posters bolstering my be an artist yourself theory

A lot of my friends are artists and I have some of their paintings.I also paint and have a few of mine There is an open house art exhibition twice a year in Brighton where local artists display and sell art from their homes and I usually buy a piece each year I love supporting local artists and hate mass produced shop bought 'art' witha passion