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I've had some wildly fascinating (and sometimes shocking) chats over the last week about the relationship of (some) artists with (some) of their gallerists. From (unnamed) galleries not paying thousands of pounds in sales to the artists, to others creating ponzi schemes of 'art investment portfolios', to others being, well, (not my words), just a bunch of wankers - I couldn't help but post this brilliant piece from Enzo Marra who kindly emailed me this week to introduce his work to me. Marra is a man after my own heart - both in the art world himself but preferring to sit outside it too and independently observe it: 'I have been occupied with how the artworld can be seen from the insiders and the outsiders point of view, the valuing of artworks and their auctioning, the processes and activities that occur behind the privacy of studio doors, the hanging and display of works animated by the commodified space of the gallery'. This piece is called 'Inner Voice'. One for some of you artists out there.
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Enzo Marra 'Inner Voice' #enzomarra #emergingartist #emergingart #artoninsta #artstudio #innervoiceartists #unleashyourinnerartist #innervoice #innervoices #alwayslistentoyourinnervoice #artgallery #goodonesandbadones #artconsultant #indepedent #impartial #pragmatic #advice

This has been an amazing show meeting lots of lovely people, many of whom have said incredibly complimentary things. Thanks too to everyone for their kind advice and generosity with their time and passing on their knowledge. I feel totally excited about where I will take my business next - this show has been incredibly affirming and has confirmed that I have a lot of skills and knowledge to offer the interior design world. A new business strategy has been developed off the back off this show and I am incredibly grateful to everyone I've talked to that has helped get me to that place. Watch this space 👊👊👊👊🔥
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Stunning stand by this lovely lady @louisawarfield_artconsultancy
Loved the artwork and the matching furniture... very cool and gorgeous colours 🖤💗 I’d say she knows what she’s doing 💫

Lovely to meet you and have a chat Louisa. I see we already have some mutual IG friends so hopefully we’ll bump into each other sometime soon 😊
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#louisawarfield_artconsultancy #100percentdesign #artconsultancy #artconsultants #artandinteriors #artininteriordesign #artlovers #londonartconsultants #londondesignweek #interiorbloggers #interiorlover #lifestyleblogger #lifestyleblogging #lifestylebloggeruk #interiorsobssessed #interiordesignblogger #designlover #designandart #londonlife #londonlifestyle #designinspo #designinspirations #interiorstylingideas #interiorstylingideas #londondesignweek #l_d_f_official

I've collected Sarah Ball's work for more years than I care to admit and I consider it a real honour to be able to show her work here @100percentdesign. Sarah has recently had a sell out show with Joe and his team @animamundigallery - many of my clients getting work ahead of the curve and some of the ones that didn't believe me that they needed to move quick feeling a bit sad. These two works are currently being thought about seriously by a couple of clients but DM me if you want to go on the 'I love them' list.
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Sarah Ball 'TBC' #sarahball #sarahballartist #nipple #contemporaryart #colllectart #instaart #artoftheday #artcollector #artcollections #femaleartist #britishart #britishcontemporaryart #contemporarybritishpainting #artconsultant #feelingblessed

I can't explain just how wonderful it is sitting next to this mob of monkeys. I've got entire back histories, personalities and relationships lined up for all of them and I am sure the one in the middle is looking at me! All work is for sale DM me for details.
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Peter Jones 'Three Monkeys' #peterjones #peterjonesart #peterjonesartist #100percentdesign #100percentdesign2019 #artconsultant #artconsulting #artconsultingservices #artadvice #artconsultant #beentalkingallday #abittired

Ta da! The handsome Peter Jones surveying our work this evening. SO pleased with my little pea pod - thanks to the three fabulous artists who have agreed to show with me @sarah_ball_artist (courtesy of @animamundigallery) @peterjonesart and @dominicbeattiestudio. All work is for sale and I am here to discuss projects you need art for all week. .
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#peterjonesart #sarahballartist #animamundigallery #dominicbeattie #jgmgallery #emergingartist #midcareerartist #britishart #artcurators #artcurator #artconsultant #artadvice #100percentdesign2019 #darklead

It's been fun deciding how dress my peapod stand @100percentdesign. First thing was to pick the colour. I've loved working with clients this year who have gone dark so picking this #darklead from @littlegreenepaintcompany was a no brainer. A huge thanks to them for providing the paint 🙌. Painting this myself was a bit more challenging but I seem to have just about got away with it. Not sure what my artists will think of my 'edges' but nothing a dab of white paint won't fix. Tomorrow I hang three artists. #waitandsee
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Louisa Warfield has a go at painting. She's pretty bad at it and decides that this proves she's leaving the painting to the artists she works with. #artconsultant #100percentdesign #100percentdesign2019 #littlegreene #littlegreenepaint #littlegreenpaintcompany #notgreenthough #darklead #paintitdark #darkpainting #darkpaint #darkinteriors #darkinteriorstyle #goinghomenow

I've collected and followed Julie's work for a few years now and was absolutely totally blown away by her solo show that is on now @flowersgallery Kingsland Road. Brilliant to see her working in a larger format (I'd kill for one of the seagull pieces) but it's the new prints that I think are absolutely to die for. Technically utterly superb (check out the shadows - spotted by my clever client Helen!), beautiful and cool - pure Cockburn. ❤️🧡💛💚
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Julie Cockburn 'Dapple (Green Man)
#juliecockburn #collageart #collageartists #printmaker #printmakersofinstagtam #printsofinstagram #printsofinsta #femaleartist #britishart #britishartists #collectart #usean #artconsultant #artadvice #15yearsexperience #sograteful

Yes! It's not every day you get something for free! If you come and visit me on my stand E24B next week (show runs Wednesday to Saturday) at 100 % design with photos of your project I will give you one free idea for the space! Yes one whole one! I might even stretch it to two if I like you. Bring colours, fabrics and lots of photos. .
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Fran Mora 'Cactus' #artforsale #cactus #franmora #100percentdesign #interiordesign #interiordesigner #freeconsulation #idontbite #comeforachat #showmeyourproject #artconsultant #artconsultantlondon #iloveart

Peering into a Lee Madgwick painting is a bit like peering at a still from film. The only thing is, you don't know what the film is of, what came before or what comes next. And herein lies the power of these paintings. Houses are abandoned, derelict or here in this case, just propped up like on a film set. Did the rest of the house ever exist? If it did, what happened? But what if it didn't ever exist. What if it was all or always a facade? What if everything is a facade. .
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I am selling this work. DM me for details.
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Lee Madgwick 'Truth of a Daydreamer' #leemadgwick #leemadgwickart #acrylicpainting #landscapepainting #collectorswork #collectorart #artcollector #collectart #artforsale #purchasedwhenmylifewasagreatbigfatfacade #artconsultant #gettingridofallthefacadesinherlife #onefacadeatatime #grateful

Wowsers. Congratulations to the Sunday Times for such a brilliant, surprising and wide ranging group of winning work from its 2019 Watercolour Competition. This winning work (pictured right) of a child in the shower is an absolutely drop dead brilliant mixed media thing - not just watercolour, but Indian ink, coloured pencil and oils. So refreshing to see watercolour being used in such a fresh way and I can't wait to get a wiggle down to Mall Galleries to gawp at it in the flesh (no pun intended). .
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#Repost @leodaveystudiogallery
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#watercolor #watercolour #watercolouring #watercolor_art #watercolourpaint #watercolourartist #water #watercolourist #sundaytimes #artist #painting #awardwinningartist #artcollector #beautifulwork

My tummy went into my mouth when I saw this image - one from brilliant series of tableau from 'Kitchen Table Portfolio'. I've had the same scenario play out in my house on many an occasion. Different light, different table, different chairs, different kid but the rest is a mirror image. The series is "a photographic exploration of the kitchen, a domestic space in which the artist staged scenes of 'the battle around the family' between women and men, friends and lovers, parents and children". This image takes me right back to my kitchen table where I've played out the same battles, often with the exact same stance (leaning in, arms on table, make myself feel bigger, quite cross, certainly firm, reading the riot act) and often with the same slight look of fear from whichever said child was in the firing line. It's made me think. Am I ever justified to hold this stance over one of my kids, or is this what we as mothers are MEANT to do, entitled to do? Do the means justify the ends? Is this what parenting has to look like to achieve a good result? Do all boundaries need to, ultimately, when soft words and cajoling have failed, end up at this point round the kitchen table? Where is the man at this moment? Why do all these battles end up being me being the protagonist? Is it this that makes the relationship between mums and their kids just that little bit deeper? Or does it mean it makes the relationship a little more resentful? Certainly my son's main memory of his 11+ was 'me making him cry' apparently. Great. Was it worth it? Was getting him into the school of his choice ever worth that memory? Was me 'standing over the table' ever worth that? .
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Carrie Mae Weems 'The Kitchen Table Series, 1990' #carriemaeweems #photographicseries #tableau #blackartist #blackartists #femaleartists #blackfemaleartist #artcollector #artadvisor #artconsultantlondon #artsourcing #artthatmakesyouthink #artthatmakesmecry #artconsultant #feelingbad

This week has been a week of thinking about the #loewecraftprize. A discussion with one (anonymous) artist as to why he should apply this year; a slightly (sorry) smug look at my own Jennifer Lee (winner 2018) pot that I bought many moons ago and now a fascinating article in @craftsmagazine about the 2017 winner Ernst Gamperl. Holy. Moly. Look how big that tree stump is - and this guy turns (no pun intended) it into (wooden) pots. Where have I been? OK I forgive myself - 2017 was at the height of my divorce 'game' so perhaps I wasn't at the top of my art game but am still flabbergasted that I have allowed these monumental vessels pass me by. Freya @sarah_myerscough_gallery - how on earth did I miss these?!!! .
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Ernst Gamperl 'With The Big Oak' #ernstgamperl #oak #oaktree #tieayellowribbonroundtheoldoaktree #theoldoaktree #theoldoaktree #woodturner #imaturner #woodvessel #woodvessels #sarahmyerscoughgallery #loewe #loewecraftprize #loewecraftprize2017 #loewecraftprize2018 #winner #jenniferlee #artconsultant #alwayslearning #ilovemyjob

Tell me. Have I spent too long in the Isle of Wight? Have I lost my art mojo? Why am I so absolutely made up about this lovely little oil of Freshwater Bay - purchased for £40 in an antiques shop! This is not my style at all. But if you ignore the frame I thought the painting, palette and the cute little boats were adorable. The perfect thing to start my new gallery wall of vintage Isle of Wight pictures and postcards. This one is from 1875 apparently. And if you believe that from the man who sold it to me then you will believe anything! 😂
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Allan 'Freshwater Bay 1875' (Apparently) #freshwaterbay #antiquepainting #oilpainting #victorianoilpainting #victorianpainting #seascape #landscapepainting #landscapeoilpainting #ilovetheisleofwight #isleofwight #isleofwightart #artconsultant #goneawol

I know I've had a holiday when I find myself losing myself down a rabbit hole of obsessive googling in the search to find out more about something that piques me. I'm currently completely ensconced in The Salt Path by Raynor Winn - in it the black pigment of 'Bideford Black' is mentioned, which google led me to a group show that Burton Art Gallery did with artists all using Bideford Black, which led me onto the work of artist Paul Ward who has produced a series of works only using natural earth pigments from Cornwall. Delicious. Reminiscent of Australian indigenous art of course but I can't ever remember seeing anything as inky black as this. But someone I am sure will enlighten me. @jgm_gallery ? .
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Peter Ward 'Botallack Black – behind a rainbow (Cornish earth pigments on paper)' #peterward #peterwardartist #botallack #botallackmine #botallackblack #bideford #bidefordbay #bidefordblack #naturalpigments #naturalcolour #naturalearth #earthtones #aboriginalart #ochres #thesaltpath #raynorwinn #artconsultant #googlingherwaythroughherholiday #happinessindeed

I've been following Matthew Chambers incredible work for more years than I care to mention. The work gets better and better, more and more refined, tighter, tauter, more weighty, with every year that goes by. I cant wait to go and say hello at the Binnel Open Studios here in the Isle of Wight next weekend. This weekend is also free so if anyone has any recommendations for Isle of Wight artists that I should go and see then please let me know.
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#Repost @matthewchambers_
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All Yellow (27cm) with @blueeleanor
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#ceramics #art #craft #handmade #yellow #nottinghill #isleofwight #matthewchambers #ceramicart #ceramicarts #isleofwight #isleofwightartist #ilovetheisleofwight #binnelopenstudios #isleofwightarts #isleofwightopenstudios #artconsultant #happyintheisleofwight

I wish I'd watched the BBC Arena documentary on Cindy Sherman before seeing her show at The National Portrait gallery - it adds fascinating context and detail that is lacking in the NP presentation and has given me a whole new level of appreciation for the @cindysherman instagram account. .
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#Thanks to Repost @the_art_gorgeous
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#cindysherman #instagram #makeup #socialmedia #miaow #lipstick #girls #intothegloss #bbcfour #arenadocumentary #cindyshermandocumentary #artgeek #artdocumentary #artadvisor #artconsultant #newfoundlevelofappreciation

Thanks to @stephenellcock posting an incredible collage of a woman sunbathing under the moon, I have been introduced to the collage work of Jacques Prévert and I am now officially obsessed! Prévert (1900-1977) it turns out, was a French lyricist, poet, wrote plays and did a wonderful, weird and at times quite dark sideline in collage. "Part of the Surrealists’ circle in his youth, this fiercely independent yet politically committed man would maintain throughout his life strong ties with a number of friends who were prominent 20th-century artists, and develop an extensive and wonderfully varied body of work that is shot through with humor, fantasy, and a complete disregard for conformity. Starting in the mid-1940s, with the encouragement of Joan Miró and Pablo Picasso, Prévert became an enthusiastic practitioner of collage. He would hunt for his images at flea markets and the booksellers along the Seine. His favorite sources included old engravings, anatomical and botanical plates, chromolithographs, popular or devotional images, reproductions of paintings by grand masters, postcards, pages from magazines, and photographs by his friends Brassaï, Doisneau, Izis and Villers. From this raw material, he would compose new images, playing with unexpected juxtapositions that transform platitudes and commonplaces, redirect and reappropriate expected meanings, and disorient viewers". You can say that again. I love. 🖤
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Jacques Prévert 'Collage' #jacquesprevert #jacquesprévert #collage #collageoftheday #collageofinstagram #ilovecollage #collagegoals #collageart #artadvisory #artadvice #arthelp #artconsulting #artconsultancy #artconsultantslondon #artconsultantisleofwight

I started this day in a slightly bah humbuggy kind of way and am determined to finish it off giving something back. I realise I have never actually posted something directly about the incredible paintings of @kerlinfine_art. Each work is slightly off focus and whilst your brain tells you you know exactly what you are seeing the unfocussing of the image insists for you to look closer, that everything might not be what it seems, that this out of focus image may (or may not) suggest there is something blurry or 'off kilter' about this person's life. These are paintings of exquisite beauty that remind us daily that life is not black and white, it is not on and off, it is not 'on point' most of the time, things are not always crystal clear (they are often murky), there is not always clarity - most of the time we occupy a space somewhere in the middle, muddling along, making it up as we go along, even sometimes just in the 'in between' - kind of in the twilight zone. Most of us have something from our past that makes us much more complex than we first appear. Mostly though what I love about each of Sherry's paintings is that Sherry knows exactly what back story they all have. Whether the artist decides on this back story before she embarks on the painting or whether it emerges through the paint I dont know, but Sherry is an acute observer of human nature and for me, what I think it the true genius of this work is that I see an element of myself in every painting - however flawed, damaged, vain or vulnerable that might be. .
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The Inner Isolation of the Little Girl With Red Hair (acrylic/oil on canvas)
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#sherrykerlin #artcollector #artcollecting #thingsarenotalwayswhattheyseem #thingsarenotwhattheyseem #grey #lifeisnotblackandwhite #inbetween #artoftheday #painterspaintingpaintings #paintersofinstagram #contemporaryart #artcollector

This has to be up there as one of my favourite art interventions ever.
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One of the most incredible experiences of my and @vasfsf’s career bringing to life the conceptual drawings of the Teetertotter Wall from 2009 in an event filled with joy, excitement, and togetherness at the borderwall. The wall became a literal fulcrum for U.S. - Mexico relations and children and adults were connected in meaningful ways on both sides with the recognition that the actions that take place on one side have a direct consequence on the other side. Amazing thanks to everyone who made this event possible like Omar Rios @colectivo.chopeke for collaborating with us, the guys at Taller Herrería in #CiudadJuarez for their fine craftsmanship, @anateresafernandez for encouragement and support, and everyone who showed up on both sides including the beautiful families from Colonia Anapra, and @kerrydoyle2010, @kateggreen , @ersela_kripa , @stphn_mllr , @wakawaffles, Chris Gauthier and many others (you know who you are). #raelsanfratello #borderwallasarchitecture .
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#artconsultant #humbled

Sometimes I have to pinch myself about how long I have known some artists. Surely neither of us are that old? Peter Jones is one. Peter, I swear, looks not one day older than the day I had a little salon privé for him over 10 years ago. I still ADORE his work. And there is a part of me that cant quite get her head around the fact that he is still in my life but the ex isn't. I would never have pegged that back then. Hey ho. Let's just look at these beautiful oils on paper. I want all of them. .
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Peter Jones 'Studio' #peterjonesart #oilonpaper #studiovisit #artiststudio #artiststudios #ilovepeterjones #wegoalongwayback #grateful #artcollector #collectart #artaddict #artoftheday #instaart #instaartist #ilovemyjob #Anchoring #igotsomethingright

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