Affordable Art? Where…
If your walls could talk they’d say, ‘I don’t care if there is a recession, I’m sick of being bare’.
Cover your white space, dispose of tattered college posters (puppies are not art, people) and spruce up your home with affordable art from our favourite places.
Textile designer Anna Hill uses nature as inspiration for her digitally printed wallpapers, which feature brightly coloured birds, tigers, cherry blossoms and other plants and animals. Her designs are intended to fit an entire wall with no repetitive patterns, so each piece is made to order (£40-£120/meter square).
For a more personal touch, turn your favourite photos into art with a Catkin Collection family tree. Add images of your family or friends to the branches to make art imitate life (£42).
Born from the owners’ love of typography and screen-printing, the quirky limited-edition prints at Keep Calm Gallery have amusing messages (‘The first mistake of art is to assume it’s serious’) and emoticons like <3 spelled out (‘less than three’). The recently launched original artwork section features a series of whimsical collages by up-and-comer Matthew Rose (£170).
Can’t afford a Banksy? Little Art Book offers the next best thing: a limited-edition collection of work by the freshest new names from the streets. If you haven’t heard of Oh Death or The Krah, you will soon. Watch this space (£60-£450).
Search The Few Gallery for prints by graphic artists and illustrators from around the world. We love Brit artist Sean Freeman’s striking peacock and Spaniard Gary Fernandez’s surreal portrayal of an ordinary day in the park (£176).
The team at New Blood Art scour art school shows to find undiscovered talent. There are thousands of paintings, drawings, photographs, sculptures and prints to choose from, all sorted into price categories so you can easily find something for less than £50 or more than £3,000.
Can’t decide which to buy? Check out our ten favourite pieces of affordable art.
© Matthew Rose 2010
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