Shipping worldwide from Portland, UK
Shipping worldwide from Portland, UK
I confess to being a complete sucker for a good bit of mid-century graphic design. It is so confident in itself – so precise. The colours are crisp, the message is clear and the future looks sharp. The watercolour and ink designs for posters, book covers and advertising, are a type of art form that …
Those of you who know me outside the confines of this website are aware that since setting up Art on Paper, I have been working from my home at Portland H.Q. Over the past year, H.Q. has become a bit squeezed as the business has grown into something that can stand on its own two …
School Prints Ltd. was established in 1935 by arts campaigner Brenda Rawnsley (1917 – 2007) and her husband Derek., with the ambition of creating affordable prints of works of art so that school children (of primary school age) would have access to quality art. Schools were asked to subscribe to receive the posters. Derek died …
I think that the current talk of the political ‘Circus’ is giving the history of the performer a very bad name. The human acrobat and the stage performer are both talented professionals, who have been celebrated in the most splendid ways throughout the history of art. Just think of Miss La La at the Cirque …
Part of the joy of printing is that it can offer a more affordable form of art for collectors. Unfortunately, the language of print making, (‘editions’ proofs’ and ‘states’ etc) can sometimes be off-putting. This is a barrier to those people who may wish to dabble their feet in the art market and are unsure …
This little watercolour (7 x 6 inches) transports us to Scotland. It takes us right to the heart of an artist colony at the height of the arts and crafts movement – to Kirkcudbright (pronounced kur-coo-bree) at the mouth of the River Dee. As I am not straying far from my home this summer, I …
Choosing frames for pictures is a difficult thing. Sometimes an unusual frame and picture combination creates a great ‘object’ where each plays well against the other. Other times, a frame needs to support the image. It is lots of fun trying out pictures and frames together. When you finally see a good pairing, it tends …
Part of the joy of finding and conserving art on paper, is the investigation of the stories that surround them. Sometimes it is the technique used, sometimes it is information about the artist, and sometimes the provenance – where has it been on its journey? In 2017 I studied an MA(Res) in the Art Market …
We recently acquired a set of ten prints on different papers. The etchings of a fisherman are by Audrey Lewis-Hopkins (1914 – 2011) who was an artist based in Bristol. I have written about the different paper types she used below, but first a little about Audrey. She studied at the West of England College …
… is another person’s picture frame wrapping material. We’re conscious of how much packaging is needed to send artworks through the post or with couriers. Particularly artworks that are in frames with glass. We have always been very keen on reusing shipping materials to reduce the cost (financial and environmental) of buying new packaging materials. …
