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Your favourite piece of art in your home

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M0nica Sun 12-Apr-26 12:10:27

A small uiet watercolour of a few anemones in a vase. The painting is muted greys and purples and it is in a wide mount, probably once white, now a gentle cream

I have known this little watercolour all my life. It belonged to my grandmother and I have loved it since childhood.

teabagwoman Sun 12-Apr-26 11:52:15

I have various pictures/prints but my favourite is of bluebells in a wood by a local, amateur artist, bought for me by my dd because she knew it would remind me of a particular event in my life.

kittylester Sun 12-Apr-26 10:55:14

We have an eclectic mix of original art, posters, stuff from Etsy etc which are all about us, our family and our interests.

My very favourite things are 2 bronzes - one of very little monetary value but bought by our children one Mother's Day - it represents our family.

The other was bought by my lovely DH and is called 'Where the Heart is'.

JamesandJon33 Sun 12-Apr-26 10:40:35

We have two etchings… by a tutor of ours from art school. Both have Welsh subjects .

ViceVersa Sun 12-Apr-26 10:15:11

I have a painting of our house which hangs above the mantelpiece which I love, and also a few limited edition prints by the Edinburgh Sketcher, which - as the name suggests - are sketches of places in and around Edinburgh.

paddyann54 Sun 12-Apr-26 09:56:27

I have 3 prints imported from the USA 20 something years ago.I saw one in the background of a furniture catalogue so called the company to see if they could tell me who
/ where I could find it .
It ,s by an artist called JJ Holstein and called Jazz at Tacamoe(sp) station and the lovely woman on the phone sent me a small catalogue of his other works.
I ordered 3 I have the jazz trio,a violinist with a gold earring that my GC al have tried to pick off the print and two men playing chess.
None of the figures have facial features ,they are just blank and black.
I still love them now as much as I did when I saw the first one .I have them positioned so I can see then even when I,m sitting with my back to them,they are reflected in a 6 foot long mirror opposite .

Grandmabatty Sun 12-Apr-26 09:53:07

I treated myself to this for my 65th birthday. It's by Greer Ralston who is a Scottish artist, my art tutor and a friend. I now have 4 pieces by her, so I suppose I'm a collector

Sago Sun 12-Apr-26 09:42:23

Following on from HelterSkelter1excellent thread on art I thought I would put an end to the fantasy and bring us back down to reality!

Sorry.

What is your favourite piece of art in your home?

I will start with mine, a piece we couldn’t really justify when we bought it 25 years ago but I fell in love with it and we lived in a barn conversion with huge walls and there was a big gap!