Do you have a favourite artist, or piece of art........

[askyourgran]

I like some classical painters John Singer Sargent (sp)for one. But some of todays modern prints are really good. Justin Bua and Stephen Johnson are excellent imho except that this sort of art is likely to be displayed in a very modern setting. I'd love to have some of these prints.

[anneasquith]

boxtops, id not heard of shirley travena, but her work looks great, will google her, i fancy a new print,

[merciasounds]

I like the French Impressionists, Renoir in particular, I love Constable and one of my favourite paintings is the Fighting Tameraire, by JMW Turner.
Also my art teacher when I was at school used to do the most exquisite watercolours of plants, insects and butterflies, they were so good they looked like photos - her name was Helen Brice

[pastafreak]

Varied-from the Pre-Raphaelites, to Turner,to Lucian Freud
The ex and I collected Studio Pottery for a few years....my treasured pieces are the first two we ever bought-they were by John Pollex-who is local to this area.

[pastafreak]

Oh... mustn't forget Vermeer, and Edward Hopper....

[DTCwordfan]

snoopy - have you read some of the history of Alfred Wallis? He never had a formal lesson and only took up painting very late in life.

there is another Cornish artist in the naive mode, Bryan Pearce. His paintings are rather controversial as he suffered a condition caused by a strong rejection of mothers milk - something that is now a basic test done in Agpars....it left him mentally disabled with an age of about 11-12, though he had adult knowledge of choral music and trains. When he was about 18, his aunt gave him a splash-on water paint book and he loved in and that was it, he was away....... It did help that he lived in Piazza in St Ives (alongside a rack of artists and others who had apartments there, such as Hepworth, Bernard Leach, Janet Leach (separate flats), Barnes-Wallis and writers such as Holliday. He was sponsored by Alan Bowness, who became the Director of the Tate and was Hepworth's son in law (maybe a case of, "not what you know, but who you know").

Anyway, his paintings are commanding some serious prices now.

My parents took him up on the cliff-tops near Zennor and set him up in a field. When they came back from a walk, he had painted the cows - with their udders on at the wrong end. I have a couple of his signed limited prints, but wishI had got an original when I had the chance - then about £250.

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