Sue Howells was recently named as the UK’s best selling artist in succession to such illustrious names as Jack Vettriano and Beryl Cook . Sue has been active in the market place for several years, and now has a reputation as one of the top selling artists in the UK, providing work for Harrods and … Read more
Two spray paintings by Banksy sold for an above-estimate £120,000 pounds each in a London sale of urban art last night. “Laugh Now but One Day We’ll Be in Charge“ featuring a chimpanzee wearing a sandwich board, and “Bombing Middle England,” showing pensioners playing bowls with grenades, achieved the joint top price with fees at … Read more
Tributes continue to flood in for Beryl Cook. Most of the broadsheets have published obituaries reflecting the great affection for this artist . Cook often started paintings from sketches she made in the Dolphin , her local pub in Plymouth .One of these is the Strippergram. Local Billy explains: “One day a strippergram came in … Read more
“Trespass Alliance: Inside Urban Art” is a new exhibition at the Andipa Gallery featuring works from renowned artists including: D*Face, a London-based multimedia street artist famed for putting defaced 10 pound notes into circulation and creating a 9ft tall ice sculpture of a spray-can in the Arctic Circle. Also there is Swoon, a New York-based … Read more
Beryl Cook artwork – Shoe Shop is one of her last limited editions published . The BBC’s Culture Show mentioned an interview they did with Beryl Cook last year
A little know gallery in the Borders will host the world premiere of rock icon Bob Dylan‘s first ever set of limited editions . breeze gallery in Peebles will open this unique exhibition this week . Dylan has sold over 110 million albums since he burst on the music scene in the 60s. The Drawn … Read more
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov, whose fortune is estimated by Forbes magazine at $19.5 billion, has pulled out as general sponsor of Ilya and Emilia Kabakov’s first retrospective in their native Russia. Despite the setback, the artists say the show will open as planned on 15 September in the Pushkin Museum of Fine Arts and CCC … Read more
A new stencil by Banksy, possibly worth over £100,000 , has been painted over by the local council . Last year, Islington Council had a policy of protecting Banksy’s work . It compiled a list of works by Banksy in their area to prevent them being painted over by clean-up teams. But the council now … Read more
Andre Zlattinger is a senior director in the British paintings department at Sotheby’s and, as head of Scottish sales, handled record-breaking auctions such as Jack Vettriano’s The Singing Butler. In his spare time he is a keen mountaineer and last month he was on the edge of Everest’s “death zone”, preparing to strike out for … Read more
A LOST painting by one of the world-famous Glasgow Boys is for sale after being discovered in a small American town by an Edinburgh art gallery director . The rare painting by Edward Walton was discovered on an art auction website by gallery director Emma Walsh. It is now part of a new exhibition at … Read more