Mother's Day Art and Home Gift Ideas
With Mother's Day (Sunday 10th March) just around the corner, now is the ideal time to get that perfect present for Mum.
We have lots of reasons to thank those special women in our life who have supported us through the recent turbulent years...as well as throughout our lives. So, to bring them a little much-deserved happiness, we've pulled together some thoughtful gift ideas from our online gallery and Interiors collections.
Nature's Winter Landscapes and the Art they Inspire
In 1565 he painted Winter Landscape with Ice-skates and Bird-trap, depicting an icy village scene with bare-branched trees, snow-topped cottages surrounding the central illustration of peasants skating on the ice. The piece is said to be an allegory for the dangers and temptations of human existence - with the heavily featured elements of ‘skating on ice’ and bird traps symbolising the uncertainty of life and its many hazards, respectively. Pieter Bruegel the Elder was a pioneer of this style of painting and what is now known as genre painting.
New Limited Edition Prints for Autumn 2023
We are thrilled to have launched an enticing collection of vibrant new limited edition prints today. The collection includes work from the ever popular Gary Walton, Dominique Salm, Bev Davies, Nicky Litchfield, Jake Winkle, Sarah Jackson, as well as introducing exciting new marine life artist - Giles Ward.
A History of Watercolour Painting - Part 2
From the late 17th century to the present day the British school of watercolour has become the most universally observed. In 1780, English Romantic painter J. M. W. Turner was accepted into the 1768 founded London Royal Academy of Art, the only professional artistic body of that time. He famously produced grand landscape paintings, and pioneered the use of watercolours in this large-scale format. He continued to reinvent the use of watercolour until his death in 1851, and his influence on watercolourists ever since is undeniable.
A History of Watercolour Painting - Part 1
The historical continuance of watercolour painting is most commonly associated with artwork from the Renaissance in the 15th and 16th centuries onwards. However, the origins of this method can actually be dated back to ancient times and many cultures all around the world…even to Palaeolithic European cave paintings, when primitive man used pigments mixed with water.
