Your favourite piece of art in your home

Caricature of guess who - my lovely d.i.l. had it done as a reminder of our holiday in Spain 😂

Many years ago I went to the Harrogate art festival. The paintings were very expensive but I enjoyed looking at them.
I loved sea scapes and my son encouraged me to buy one. I thought they would be far too dear for me but we searched.
I found a beautiful painting the artist created from her living room overlooking the sea in Cornwall. It was still a bit pricey but I bought it. I found out later from the gallery that the artist was in her nineties and was delighted I liked her work.

I can see Pen y Fan from my front windows Aldom, I’m a bit further away than your husband was, though.
This is my favourite, it’s an original watercolour of children on the beach at Concarneau.

these are all lovely

As I many lovely paintings and I'm envious. Annapops I share your love of Staithes and have found memories of happy days there.

Thanks everyone. The splashback was cut to fit the space and we decided to extend the theme throughout the kitchen. We have a very red sink, dark !blue blinds and yellow walls.
Sunglasses are optional!

Several paintings of the Cornish coast by my late mother Barbara. We also have a print of Health of the Bride by Stanhope Forbes. I am reliably informed that the person who sat as the elderly lady at the table was a relative of my ancestors who lived in Mousehole.

We have a lot of Welsh art. Here in Wales they have ‘Collector Plan ‘ where you may buy a work of art over a 10 month period.

Not really art but it is framed and hanging up. It’s a photograph of The Beatles and signed by them all. I was at a fan club party in 1963 in London and they were there of course. I sat at a table with them and chatted away while they signed this photo. I even got a chaste kiss on the cheek from George Harrison. They weren’t that famous then, the fan club was quite small. There was a concert afterwards which we all enjoyed.

My mother's and my elder daughter's paintings.

My Grandfather was a groom for a large country estate in Yorkshire. I inherited an oil painting of a gorgeous horse he was responsible for. It was given to him as a thankyou from the owner

I can’t even pick a favourite from this lovely lot let alone one of my own! Quite a lot of ours are by family members and friends and some have hung in the Royal Academy in London as DH’s (many times) great uncle was an academician, as was a late friend. But just as precious as those are the beautiful Irish water colour by my uncle and the view of an African village by DH’s Mum.

We have a set of 6 beautiful watercolour landscapes of the Buckingham countryside painted in the early years of the 20th century.

They come from DH's family and were a gift from the artist to his sister, who was the aunt who raised FiL, after his mother died.

I absolutely love them and they take pride of place in our dining room. It has been nice to discover that the artist's recognition is growing. He was recently described as the best painter of horses in his time (early 20th century). I was delighted to read this because we have two hunting scenes in our set and I have always thought how well the horses are painted.

There are several and they all have a personal connection but the one I like best is a watercolour of the creek at low tide at Solva. We bought it at an exhibition there of local artists. As we had walked there, DH had to carry it all the way back along the coast path to St David’s with a strongish wind blowing! It hangs in our bedroom and is the very first thing I see every morning. It reminds me of some of the best times of our lives.

We have a lot of watercolours by local artists and all of them have a story and are very special to me.

I have 2 large paintings on my kitchen wall of pears. DD took photos of 18c French watercolours on her last trip to S France. She enlarged them and had them printed onto a linen effectn paper and simply framed..I love them. She always manages to find me small seaside watercolours in brocantes on her trips.
I love all types of seaside paintings especially the Impressionists.

Suffolk, East Anglia farm.

A water colour by an unknown dutch artist. I love that little painting, it used to hang in my grandparents big square hallway, always deep in edwardian gloom. My sister tells me it needs to be professionally cleaned, I like it as it is! It takes me straight back to the days spent at their house when I was a little girl.

Probably my favourite picture - it’s at the bottom of the stairs. No one else in the family likes it!

I’d like the marble statue of Cupid and Psyche by Canova.
I used to have a photograph of it hanging on my stairs and little granddaughter asked in wonder, ‘Is that a real fairy?’

I mixed up this thread with the very similar one. I’d like the Canova but it’s not actually living in the corner of my sitting room!

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Favourites change all the time...all mine.

One of my DDs is an artist so I have plenty of her work around the house which changes frequently. One of my favourites is a self portrait by one of my DGC who did it for one of her A level pieces. It’s gorgeous.

This is a piece Imlove, very unlike our Luther more traditional art. My husband found it in a skip in thevNetherlands, a signed, numbered print.

I don't respond to visual art as,strongly as I do to music and literature. So my favourite pictures are by people I have loved: my FiL, my sister and my best friend. I give thanks for their artistic gift.

Casdon

I can see Pen y Fan from my front windows Aldom, I’m a bit further away than your husband was, though.
This is my favourite, it’s an original watercolour of children on the beach at Concarneau.

I'm looking out on Skirrid Fach as I write, and when I go to make some tea I shall see Blorenge!