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[salvador d] 02/4/2008 08:20

Pamela Looks interesting.

[little minx] 02/4/2008 08:15

There are a couple I think but there could be three more to come.

Just working on two of them at the moment.

[salvador d] 02/4/2008 06:58

Have you put your new artists up online?

[little minx] 01/4/2008 17:04

I should be so lucky!

[salvador d] 01/4/2008 15:38

Cool, AS you have been quite quiet I thought that you had made your millions and emigrated to Vanatu.

[little minx] 01/4/2008 14:40

Fair was ok!

Busy working on some new exciting artists at the moment.

[salvador d] 31/3/2008 15:21

Don't hear much from you anymore did the art fayre go well?

[salvador d] 31/3/2008 14:59

Bridget Riley's work is fab.

[taz2] 28/3/2008 20:04

art is a basketcase run to suit the motives of the directors simple as that

[jfishy] 28/3/2008 11:59

About 8 years off the top of my head.
Yes (not really worth selling).
I've certainly been educated about Stephen Dean.

[little minx] 28/3/2008 10:35

Well I like some of Warhol's work, along with Peter Lanyon and Mathew Lanyon, Patrick Heron and John Hoyland. Oh yes, and some Terry Frosts. There is a brilliant one for sale but it is just so expensive at 75K.

Oh yes there is one Bridget Riley too that went to the Beach Boys exhibition at the Tate in St. Ives - couldn't belive it was her's it was amazing.

[bluebelle] 28/3/2008 09:33

Yes. Not really my style. The simple fact is that there are so many good artists and you can't buy them all which is why I tend to specialise in a few whose work I really like and who, ideally, is going to increase in value.

In the last year or so, I've bought more Tilson than any other single artist and more Emma Rodgers than anything else in the sculpture line : I both really like her work and think she's going to be a bit special market-wise : think she'll end up as an RA member.

[little minx] 28/3/2008 08:31

Have you ever looked at Simeon Stafford - totally different work but a lot of fun. He is very up and coming at the moment and he seems to heading for 'heady heights' with his paintings.

[bluebelle] 28/3/2008 08:17

Thanks LM. Just had a look at the catalogue.

[little minx] 28/3/2008 07:12

Joe Tilson bits at Auction at Vision 21, Bonhams on 13 April.

[whyoy] 27/3/2008 20:27

So the question is, who is still here?....How long have you been watching ART? Do you hold this stock? Whats your conclusion?.....nothing else seems to happening!

8 years
No (out 5 years ago at loss)
Its been an education!

[bluebelle] 27/3/2008 08:42

LM

Thanks. We've been collecting some of his stuff for quite a while now (coincidentally, bought two more yesterday !)and have quite a range. Really like his work, not just his paintings but a lot of his artefacts, especially the wooden ones (he's also a carpenter)and things like album sleeves. The one period we haven't anything from is his time at Newcastle : not sure how much survived as even the artists themselves tended to regard their work as pretty ephemeral at that time !!!

[little minx] 27/3/2008 06:36

Some background on Joe Tilson for you

TILSON, JOE (British, b. 1928)


For over forty years, Joe Tilson has been making and exhibiting constructions, reliefs, prints and multiples: works of great individuality, evocativeness, richness of meaning, and dazzling visual superb impact in terms of colour, texture and structure
Studied first at the St Martin's School of Art, 1949 - 52 and continued at the Royal College of Art, 1952-55, where he won the Knapping and Rome Prizes.
He travelled extensively in Italy and Spain, which marked an influence on his early work.
His one man show was held at the New London Gallery in 1961, the 1960s seeing the burgeoning of his international exhibiting career.
After winning the Gulbenkian Foundation Prize in 1960, Tilson exhibited in the Paris Biennale and Carnegie International Exhibition, in Pittsburgh, in 1961 and had the first of his several appearances at Venice Biennale in 1964.
Subsequently retrospective exhibition was held at the Boyman's Museum in Belgium and Italy. Another retrospective of his work was staged at the Vancouver Art Gallery in 1979.
He became associated with the Royal College generation of Pop Artists, but was always prepared to experiment with novel subjects, sometimes stemming from his eclectic reading and materials.
Elected Royal Academician in 1991.

[bluebelle] 26/3/2008 16:16

Thanks Sven : I can't find anything about her but I like the pictures : putting them up in the study in France !!!