Inspire me please want to buy some affordable art work for my house.

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What do you have in your home?

Probably more than IKEA ( ponce alert have never boughht "art" in Ikea so dont know what it would cost)

I have a few paintings that have cost between £100- £200. So that kind of thing. Am quite willing to trawl ebay, second hand shops etc.

website real art on canvas is good.

Already googled Andrew Tozer and seen a few I like but beyond our budget at the moment. All these blank walls are driving me mad so I couldn;t blow our budget on one or two pieces.

We go to our local seaside a lot as we live In dorset.

I have two oils by a Paris artist (Ebip Serafedino) - beautiful, modern Monet-ish style of mostly the jazz scene.

www.serafedino.com

I decided a few years ago to ditch the prints and only put up originals, but to date there are only 4 up in the house (one of which I painted so that doesn't count), the rest of the walls are bare. Looks very miserable.

No I did a quick google when I read your post and found the same page as you.

giddykipper we made the same decision last year and now have lots of bare walls. It did not matter in the other house as we had lots of wallpaper up. But we are now in a rented house with lots of cream walls.

Watching this with interest. I'm in the market too...

You can mix prints and originals surely. Replace prints as you buy original stuff. Personally, I'd rather have prints of great art than orginal shit art. Whenever I've wanted to but something original I've just thought most looks pretty crap (am talking galleries on holiday type stuff - not Christie's auctions). I have no originals btw

Tinker I was in one of them moods, I get like it once or twice a year

We have some photgraphs as I love photgraphy and some originals I have picked up. I had lots of art when I was married and regret letting him keep it now.

I am not averse to prints, I also like cartoons. Found a fab lithograph in a charity shop the other week.

Have you tried Open Studios/Arts Trails where you can buy direct from the artists? Granted a lot of it will be bobbins, but you can get lucky.

Also not sure where you are in the country, but here in Bristol we have an annual Affordable Art Fair, think there is one in London too.

There are prints and prints tho - there is the mass produced IKEA stuff at one end and the limited and numbered print produced by the artist at the other. Printmaking is a real skill too...

I've got some stuff from here

here

Yes, avoid the IKEA "art" stuff. Unless you like it of course. But posterclub is quite good for the fine art stuff. I've not searched for originalshitart.com yet but I bet it exists

I have gpt 2 Robert Heindels, not originals sadly, but limited prints. Would love to have more original stuff.

Also have a huge and fab original water colour that I fell in love with in a gallery in the US. My dh remembered and had it shipped over formy birthday (love him!).