Do you have art in your home?

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I'm wondering how many people have art in their home and is it something you care about?

If you do like art on your walls, do you care whether it's an original (i.e. an actual oil painting) or a print/ reproduction of the sort you can get from Dunelm etc?

If you don't like art on your walls, what do you instead? (If anything?)

Loads. When I go abroad I always get something from a street artist. I have a lot of my photos up (like Gallos, Sound II etc). I have paintings my daughter made. I have original art from a talented friend, prints from artists I love (Jon Cambeul and Matt Dixon). I'd love a Grayson Perry vase or a small piece by Danny Lane (he doesn't really do small). So I have real art, but nothing expensive or famous.

Yes we have quite a lot, a mix of oils, prints, sketches etc.

I have quite a few vintage floral oil paintings.

A friend of mine from art school does the most amazing prints. I bought some of his stuff when we were students. They're up in our dining room and bring me so much joy. I paid next to nothing. I think one print I got for a bottle of wine.

He's become very successful in the intervening 25-odd years. No way could I afford them now. He's not a household name but if you know the art market you'll have heard of him.

I don't have any art on my walls despite having gone to art school and visiting galleries every month. I like to keep my house depersonalised so I don't have anything personal on the walls, and not much that isn't functional. I've considered buying art but if I did, I'd only consider something original by a fairly established artist, and then I'd worry about it fading and losing value if I had it on display.

Tons. Numbered prints, originals, sculptures. Stuff my DD has done. Also garden sculptures.

I like arty shite.

I have lots but my favourite are framed pieces by my son and niece and a canvas my other niece did for me. 💝 I love them.

Only my own work.....prints...

Yes I love art on the walls - can't imagine living in a house with nothing on the walls. We own combo of originals (oil on canvas), original framed prints + some sculptures + a number of rugs from various places.

We also have some very unusual things - like a series of framed photographs taken by DHs grandpa in the second world war in the Tobruk/North Africa region. Most other art was collected on our travels. It is very precious to me.

Yes. Dh's grandmother was an artist and we have several of her pieces that were inherited when she died. Landscape, seascape, abstract fruitbowl and a couple of beautiful florals.

We also have a large Egyptian Papyrus from a holiday to Egypt 20 years ago that's original...we watched the final stages of it being completed over 10 days by a local then bought it before we left.

Oh and we have two framed caricatures up, from separate trips to Paris of us and the dc.

Everything else on the walls is photos - mainly family photos or ones taken by us or family members of interesting things, but nothing mass produced. We also have one breathtaking photo taken by my grandfather (who was in the RAF), which is an aerial view of our local coast.

Edited to say - yes, to me it is important that it's original. We don't have any generic prints or photos or quotes or anything up. I like to think of an actual person painting/drawing or taking a totally one-off photograph of something. None of ours has any particular value but I love that it's all original.

I’ve got a fair few oil paintings from the same artist in my hallway which are probably worthless, and one other oil that seemingly has doubled in value since I bought it. My favourite piece of ‘art’ though is in the downstairs toilet, where my horrible children have scratched their names in to the plaster on the walls!

I have a whole mix, prints of paintings of places I love, a couple of big limited edition prints, a few original oils and watercolours from local art fairs. Also have a fused glass picture I commissioned from an artist who lives on a canal boat, and a trio of framed (what I thought were) pencil drawings of Whitby in the early 20th century that I inherited (already framed). Turns out through research that they are 3 pages from a book of views, that some ne'er-do-well relative had dismantled and framed! I love them anyway!
https://www.abebooks.co.uk/first-edition/SKETCHES-WHITBY-Drawn-Nature-John-Dinsdale/30648161150/bd

I've a lot of art - mostly originals - and inherited but I've also bought pieces in galleries and at auction. Couple of inherited pieces are worth around £10k most expensive purchased was £5k from a gallery and the artist is an friend - it's my favourite piece. One of my favourites is a fake - we didn't know that until my parents died and it was valued - it's still a favourite tho

She charges about £80. She hasn’t done many since lockdown as she’s been studying, but graduates this year so has started again to try and earn some extra cash. Mostly she does pets on A4 or A5.
But yes she has always been an amazing artist. But has her head screwed on.
I think we all inherited my grandfathers talent although he was never an artist, he was a sheet metal worker who could create all sorts of stuff with steel. In a different life he could have been another Anthony Gormley.
My cousin is also a talented artist but yet again chose to have a trade as a back up. He is a brilliant landscape photographer who does it as a sideline, but is building up quite a following.

I am planning to start painting again once DS and I have finished making over the garden. I retired last year so need something creative to do.

I have a mix. But the key thing is to like what it is. People who bother with something original are often pretty interesting!

I've got a mix, ranging from the expensive (lorenzo Quinn and chihuly sculptures/light box) to reasonable choose your own price (Sarah bahbah instagram photo prints)

I love each piece, the expensive ones were bought as 'investment' pieces but tbh I don't think I'll ever consider selling - they bring me joy !

A variety of some prints - photos, gig and other music related posters, some screen prints and an original bought on holiday. I'm also not adverse to a textile wall hanging.

We do
My kids of course lovely childhood pieces up to A level and my own Alevel and stuff during and since Uni.
Then
About 20 by Billy Childish
2 of Bob Dylans
One by Tracy Emin
Three by Alexander Hamilton

And a few others I cant remember the artists as I haven’t had them out for a while. Still packed up after move.
I’ve got an oil from my mum as well of an Irish cottage.

My kids hand splash painting in goash they did as tiny toddlers is my favourite though

Blimey I’ve just realised how long ago this was last posted on. I just looked up art on MN 🤣🤣🤣
hay ho

Yes, but not expensive art. Some is mine (from my degree/postgrad study), some from friends/relatives who make art and some inexpensive little paintings that we have bought when travelling. I prefer having these in my living room instead of prints, it is more personal and interesting.

Sorry for jumping on a thread that's gone quiet, but I've been researching art related threads and posters in this one seem quite knowledgeable and experienced in buying art.

Does circa £600 sound a lot for an open edition print? Mounted and framed. I know it's all subjective but I've seen one I like and can afford it (and have a scary number birthday approaching so would be my present to myself) but I've never spent that amount on a print before. Don't want to name the artist but think they're well known in their local area and has galleries in three or four local affluent tourist towns which may be part of the pricing. Style is a bit whimsical and colourful but when looking at John Dyer as a comparison his are half the price.

My heart says just go for it as it made me smile, but I'm also thinking it's a lot of money for a simple print that could be sold hundreds and hundreds of times, like something in Dunelm or Next for a fraction of the price.

So, wise art buyers, does it sound expensive to you or would you buy an open edition print regardless if you liked it?

Thanks.

Hi @namechanging21 im no expert but do buy art and limited editions.
For a signed limited edition of 25 or so I’d still think £600 is a lot.

One of my favourite artists, Billy Childish, who is very well known in the field and sell his originals in the £50/60,000 plus sells his limited edition prints for £40 each. ( max in edition 100 )
I bought a Tracy Emin limited edition ( 1/125 ) unsigned for £125.

So I think the £600 is very overpriced without knowing the artist.
However if you love it, does it matter

Yes I do. Certainly nothing valuable but a couple of originals by local artists that I like, and others by friends and family who are more talented than I am! I'm not a fan of generic prints but did buy a set once when I had a lot of dark wall to cover. I liked them and kept them, so pretty eclectic all in all!

Thanks @GivePeaceAChance , that's really useful to hear the price range you've seen for limited editions.

I think your last sentence nails it though and also my dilemma - if I love it does it matter, and it shouldn't but it is holding me back. Need to sleep on it a bit more I think.

I would say that's a lot yes, for comparison I have a signed original print of sketches by a very well known artist which was £1000 including bespoke framing.

I also have a signed limited edition print from a more niche artist that was £50 (1/200).

So that price is definitely what I would think of as the original end of the market (for me, I don't buy expensive art)