Tasteful artwork, large but not crazy expensive

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Where to look? Our last house was a cottage and had small rooms. We're now in a high ceilinged tenement and most of our old pictures are just too small and look out of place.

If I search online I'm wading through pages of "live, laugh, live" level stuff.

Any suggestions?

Etsy is a good place for art, prices very hugely depending on what you are looking for.

Look at some of the young up and coming artists. They are struggling at the moment.

I have bought digital prints from Juniper Print Shop (25 dollars) which I’ve then had printed and framed with Whitewall. The cheapest large framed canvas isn’t cheap cheap but for the size it’s good.

@Bowerbird5 - I'm all in favour of buying from struggling young artists - how I find them though?

Juniper Print Shop is looking good to. I took a moment to figure out the digital and then get them printed thing.

Contact your local art galleries and art colleges. They’ll know when to expect exhibitions. Be up front about your budget. I find that galleries not on the south east are generally cheaper (and that is a massive generalisation, I know) that outside the south east. I can pick up some lovely large original pieces for a few hundred pounds when I visit my parents in Wales and wouldn’t hope to do that where I live just outside London.

You could try surface view. They make prints to whatever size you want

Voyage maison have an outlet and they are lovely

Sort misread that it was for a cottage.
Have you tried IKEA?

I second Etsy, some fabulous artists selling their work on there and for good prices

I found an artist I particularly liked and on his website www.mcgintyart.com/print-store?pgid=jp6lys16-51513fe8-5f16-427f-baff-ce8277b8a8ab. You can select a painting and order a print in whichever size you choose.

Etsy you can search for topics on there too

Etsy, Folksy, Artfinder are good places to start. Please buy originals if you can, direct from the artist. And don't try to match the sofa, buy the sofa to match art you love!

I’m looking too so will be following this post.

I can’t seem to get past all the usual Desenio Insta shite!

Namechange normally I would say look out for exhibitions but they are not on just now. My daughter is a young artist and unfortunately a lot of artists that did their degree with her are working in supermarkets, gardening etc because they can’t live on fresh air. We supported our daughter with rent and a veggie box for two years after to help her to have time to get work out and go on courses to further her skills and she knows she is lucky.
There is normally a great print exhibition at the Hepworth Gallery in Wakefield. We met a young artist called Sarah and bought one of her prints. Ulverston too as we met her there and collected it. Bristol has a lot. It is where my daughter studied. The small gallery’s and Spike Island Print Studios. Bath gallery but they take 50% as most take between 40 % and 50% which means the artist has to up their price. You can pick up some really interesting work from these exhibitions and the university shows. I kick myself for not buying a large piece of work from a young artist in Edinburgh she is making jewellery now but her paintings were fantastic. Do have a look around or go on line namechange.😄

fairislecable I like the work on that site thank you for sharing.

Thanks guys. I showed DH some options online but he wanted to see stuff in real life. There is a gallery near us, prices started at a grand, bit rich for our blood, especially as we wanted something larger. DH remembered a place in city centre that sells prints. We had a good browse and got a limited edition print that they are framing for us. We feel very grown up. DH persuaded me to up the budget.

Ooh, also, it was a landscape of a remote part of Scotland that we have visited, so that gave it the edge.

King and McGaw is very good OP.

@NoSauce does King & McGaw do discounts at all? They're quite expensive and I am tempted but it's a lot of money!!

I bought a print from here a while ago, as they do larger than usual sizes: www.papercollective.com