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Fascinating article in the @thestmagazine today. Photographer Danny Burrows has spent several months living with the Bruderhof communities - self sufficient, family orientated and where they relinquish all possessions, money and status. His conclusion? "In some way the Bruderhof face fewer everyday struggles than the rest of us. Money worries do not exist - having nothing, like everyone else must be liberating. the care of children and the elderly is shared. If this were how care in the community worked in the rest of Britain, we might be in a better place". This girl prepares for a night of camping alone in the woods as part of her field craft studies. Wowsers. Teaching young girls independence, how to be alone, how to be self sufficient. Duke of Edinburgh's this is not (have they shortened the routes from when we did it by the way?) and I can't help but think there is something in this. I posted on my story today a very useful course for women and in doing so realised I cant do half the things on the list. And I feel sick too about how much I coveted that Loewe basket yesterday. I still have a long way to go.
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NEW PERSONAL PROJECT

I have been welcomed into the Bruderhof, a pacifist Christian community, and am working on a long term personal project documenting their lives in the 100th anniversary year of their formation.
I hope to spend many weeks in 2019 living in community with them to create a comprehensive and honest body of work.
Thanks to everyone I have met on the journey so far.

#newprojects #documentary #dannyburrowsphotography #leica #leicam9p #leicagram #storytelling #religiouscommunity #christianity #community #documentaryphotography #truth #portrait @bjp1854 @foam_magazine @foam_amsterdam
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#artconsultant #dannyburrowsphotography #humbled

Urgh. Ive spent a very dangerous afternoon catching up reading my Crafts magazine and have found myself instastalking eveything to do with these beautiful @loewe baskets. Surely this has to be an art consultant's perfect bag. Plenty of space for a business card, phone and my tape measure. What more could a girl need? .
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Idioa Cuesta 'Loewe Basket' #loewe #loewebaskets #loewebasket #milandesignweek2019
#idioacuesta #basketry #textilemaker #weaving #basketryartist #artconsultant #artconsultantlondon #handbagaddiction #couldbeworse

$I've just stumbled on this photo from a client I worked with more years ago than I care to admit (lets say it was in the first 5 years of my 15 years of experience)!!! I often joke that I have made up my job (well I kind of did) so its oddly reassuring to see that I still love the work I placed back then in my making-it-up-a-bit-as-I-go-along-days, even though I knew a mere fraction of what I do now. I guess this is because even though I know more, the one thing I have always done is only place work I love for a space and that is, luckily, enduring. And it still makes me smile when I bump into the client's husband and he says 'God Turner, I still love that Hoffer on the stairs' and I think that even though I know a lot more now - I'd like to think I'd still back myself to have placed that piece there even now and that makes me very happy indeed. 😊 . . . Peter Hoffer 'Palm' #peterhoffer #acrylicandresinonwood #palmtree #resin #miamistyle #southoffrance #frenchriviera #imadeitup #abit #justatthebeginning #nowiknowwhatIamdoing #ithink #🙏 #artconsultant #15yearsexperience #longinthetooth$

"Everybody needs a bit of this", Eliza, aged 15 going on 45. We've been going to Giffords for years (with a couple of years off during TD) and it felt extraordinarily good to be back. Giffords, if you've not heard about it, should be at the top of your list for summer's evening sorties - it's in a special class if its own but think nostalgic circus vibe, mixed in with ladles of creativity, tonnes of silliness (mostly driven by Tweedy here), some brilliant circus acts and out comes magical escapism with great blobs of joy. Nell (ex Oxford girl who ran away and didn't join a circus but set up her own Circus (whats not to love there for starters)) is also now by the way is in the middle of her third set of chemo - not that that stopped her appearance on stage beautiful and resplendent. She has started some very humbling and inspirational video blogs @nellscircus_days_ - and if there is one woman who exemplifies that the show not only must, but does go on, then it is right here. Go see. Thank you to Giffords for all the joy you given us - in the up years, the down years and the in between years. 🙏🙏🙏
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The Warfield Kids with Tweedy (Giffords Circus) #giffordscircus #giffords #tweedyclown #tweedytheclown #joy #laughs #theshowmustgoon #theshowgoeson #onwiththeshow #everyoneneedsthis

I stood and gawped at these works at London Art Fair one year (can't remember which because they all blur into one now 😩). This is amazing painting and very firmly on my wish list.
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Showing 'Ben-day cow' oil & on panel 22.5 x 30.5cm at Charlie Smith gallery 10th anniversary group exhibition in London
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#seanmolloy #landscapepainting #painterspainting #instaart #artoftheday #collectorart #artcollector #artconsultant #ilovemyjob

When the ex picked the art he wanted the kids actually sobbed when he said he was taking this painting 'Suncream' from our house in the Isle of Wight. And they were proper sobs, tears running down cheeks, noises - the whole works - it was a humbling reminder that art has the power to move and that art has the power to represent a home and an anchor. So, a few days later, the kids and I had an emergency team meeting and decided that this was a painting the four of us decided we just could not part with and so I am so enormously grateful to my friends Tamasin and James Hawke for agreeing to (Tamasin) and then reproducing (James) the painting so brilliantly and accurately. 'Suncream 2' is now winging its way to the ex where it can start it's own future and a new chapter (possibly another book the way things are going 😂) in a super shiny new home. I spotted Suncream 1 in a cupboard in the back of James's studio in North Norfolk. And like me it's been on quite a journey - it wobbled its way down to London on a car roof (it's on board) stayed a few years on our wall in London and finally made it over the pond to the Isle of Wight. Like me, it now has now has dents and knocks and chips to the frame and it also has some paint running down where someone spilt a glass of wine over it during one rather brilliant party, but I like it more and more for its knocks and it's patina and I think given all that it's aged rather well and I am delighted that Suncream and me and my kids can continue our journey on for a bit longer still together. 🙏🙏🙏 ps if you would like to come and add your own dent to this picture, or dare I say it, spill your own glass of wine on it, the house is available to rent. DM me for details. .
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James Hawke 'Suncream' #jameshawke #suncream #acrylicpainting #acryliconboard #gessoframe #isleofwight #isleofwightart #isleofwightholiday #holidayhouseisleofwight #housetorent #artconsultant #abitdented #haspatina #aginggracefully #sometimes

I feel very very lucky to be able to showcase these sumptuous works in this, my second 'Art Above the Fireplace'. I started following Tom on insta (his best five Friday works are a must follow for anyone in our world), then I weirdly recognised him in real life at a show and so I've been following his work develop over the last 18 months with much love and interest. These are quiet peaceful works that seep into you. Initially you see the colour, then the stripes but then you start to see the flecks, the ridges, the bits that the work goes over the edges of the board and you realise this is where the painting holds its quiet power. These are paintings for people who love painting. Tom has just been snapped up by not one but three top drawer galleries so please do DM me if you'd like to come and sit with these beauties and let them seep into you too - they remind me of the lines that remain when you scoop out Neapolitan ice cream - why wouldn't anyone want that on their wall!
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Tom Wilmott 'Days I Lives a World of Light XVII and XX' #tomwilmott #emergingart #emergingartist #painterspainting #paintingporn #neapolitan #instapaintings #paintingoftheday #artistoftheday #artabovethefireplace #interiorart #artforinteriors #artconsultant #luckiestgirlintheworld

This is without doubt the most delicious thing I have seen so far at the degree shows. I'm not sure whether it's the millennial pink against the grey (so pretty), the way that the cast lid clunked into place in the top (so satisfyingly), the beautiful kiln formed glass of the body that feels just like a very fine hand carved sliver of granite (so elegant), the frankly adorable bubbly finish to the lid (so surprising) or the fact that this reminds me of a beautifully poured glass of beer with its frothy foamy top (so tempting and reminds me of that iconic ad: "Do you want a flake in that love") - but I absolutely, completely fell in love with this at first sight. This artist calls himself 'an early career artist' but a reading of his CV shows he's been making glass for more years than he might be admitting and lucky for us too. With work as surprising, technically superb, fresh and twisty as this - this is someone, I think, who is one to watch. .
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Joshua Kerley 'Pot' #joshuakerley #glassmakers #glassmaker #earlycareer #artist #emergingart #emergingartist #rcaceramicsandglass #icecream #aero #bubbles #kilnformedglass #beer #top #lagertop #artconsultant #doyouwantaflakeinthatlove

The glass and ceramics show at @royalcollegeofart degree show is an absolute show stopper this year. Clearly labelled and beautifully curated - finally a degree show that is setting the bar at the same levels of commercial gallery shows and boy does this group of talented students meet that challenge. Congratulations to everyone. It was pure pleasure to see.
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Ho Lai 'Untitled' #holai #porcelain #glaze #silver #ceramics #potter #ceramicist #rcaceramicsandglass #rcadegreeshow #emergingart #emergingartists #artconsultancy #artconsultantslondon #ilovemyjob

Living with a piece of Gill's work is like living with a small slice of wonder and joy. The work is just so so so beautiful that it's like a little anchor of the sublime that you can have on your wall that has the instant ability to take you out of your hum drum, your worries, your sadness or whatever you are feeling and take you to a mysterious place of utter calm and beauty. It was an absolute pleasure doing my small part in making this commission happen - a gift from an ailing grandmother to her granddaughter - we all had a little cry when the work was presented to client. In my book, it doesn't get better than this. Thanks to @penmaninteriors for the brief. If you would like to see more of Gill's beautiful work go and visit Giles @gbsfineart who is showing another gobsmackingly beautiful group of her works today @fair_for_saatchi on at the Saatchi Gallery. .
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Gill Rocca 'Commission' #gillrocca #oilonpanel #intheround #circleart #circleartgallery #landscapepainting #landscapepaintings #summerexhibition2019 #royalacademysummerexhibition #artcommissions #artcommission #collectorart #artadvisory #artadvisor #artconsultant #bestjobintheworld

This got me. It might have been the long walk that I was lost on, it might have been that I needed a quiet place of contemplation, it might have been that sitting quietly in churches always makes me cry (counsellor has a field day on that one) or maybe I should blame the (beautiful) light but cry I did in front of this. And then again when I read humble and sweet words of the artist. Thomas Denny you nailed it - you have provided a thing of great beauty to quietly contemplate in this tiny little church, up a little lane on a long lost walk in Somerset. Thank you. 🙏🙏🙏 (addendum - turns out Thomas Denny is a master stained glass artist - if you want to be a geek like me check out the other incredible work of his by checking out #thomasdenny. Gloucester Cathedral here I come - all criers welcome!) .
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Thomas Denny stained glass in St James' Church in Milton Clevedon Somerset. #thomasdenny #stainedglass #stainedglassartist #stainedglassart #stainedglasswindows #church #churchart #beautifullight #churcharchitecture #contemplation #quietcontemplation #artconsultant #betterforalittlecryinchurch #ilovesomerset

Another stonking exhibition from one of my favourite places in the world @hauserwirthsomerset. The show - part of a two site presentation of Ursula Hauser's personal collection is heavy on Louise Bourgeois but all the more delicious for it. Ursula in conversation with her daughter states 'I learnt from Louise Bourgeois, that all our lives are unsteady' and here, in this gallery with it's beautiful light and space us women can sit and look at the work, think about the extent to which our lives feel caged (as in this head here) or trapped, or assigned roles, or unsteady. And then we can think that whatever we feel today is different to how we felt yesterday and that is different to how we will feel tomorrow and that is of course unsteady in itself. And the more we come to accept that unsteadiness, ironically, the more steady we feel. And I leave this show, this gallery feeling more steady than I have in years.
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Louise Bourgeois 'Cell XXII Portrait' #louisebourgeois #cell #portrait #selfportrait #caged #womeninart #womenartists #ursulahauser #ursulahausercollection #womencollectors #femalecollector #hauserandwirthsomerset #bruton #myfavouriteplaceintheworld #artadvisor #artconsultantslondon #steady

I'll be sorry to see this one go but it's time to find the next work for 'Art Above The Fireplace'. Calling all artists who are interested in appearing on this feed. There is of course no charge but you must be able drop off, hang and collect the work. Also have a cup of tea with me and tell me how you are feeling! 😂 I live SW18.
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#Repost @louisawarfield_artconsultancy
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When life serves you lemons - make lemonade. The post-divorce-division-of-art is now done and the ex (predictably) took the biggest work leaving me with a gaping hole (or as I prefer to see it 'Opportunity') above my fireplace. So I am delighted to announce a new programme called (also predictably) 'Art Above The Fireplace' in which I invite artists to come over, have a cup of tea, tell me how they are feeling and hang a work in my sitting room. These works are for sale (through me) and hopefully will give said artists a good showcase for their works. The first edition of this series is from Alice Neave. I absolutely love this work - fresh, painterly and well, just dead cool. She popped over with her violinist boyfriend who taught me a thing or twenty about Tchaikovsky and we talked about how much we loved the work of @andrewmcintosh_mackie. It's odd how artists I love, love artists I love. A Sunday afternoon doesn't get much better than this - what a joyous celebratory outcome to a sad and difficult few years.
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Alice Neave 'I Believe Our Year Was Vintage' #aliceneave #vintage #vintageclothing #vintagefashion #iamvintage #oilinkacrylic #oncanvas #artabovethefireplace #iflifegivesyoulemonsmakelemonade #iknewhewouldtakethebigone #sizeisnteverythingmydear #nosiree #hadthisideaplannedforaboutayear #excited #fresh #artconsultant #embracingchange #ilovethispainting #ilovemyjob

I've been chatting recently to a (black) girlfriend about how she feels to often be the only black face in the room, to be discriminated against, the pressure (covert and overt) for women of her culture to conform to white stereotypes and to have to straighten her hair and not wear her hair in it's natural 'fro'. Less than 24 hours later the tables were turned and I was the only white face in the room. I was ignored and looked past as if I didn't exist and to be honest it felt utterly joyous and exciting - too fucking right - after all what place did I have here in this celebration of Cato's frankly awesome booth presentation and her work that explores how it feels to 'be on the receiving end of racial discrimination'. The art world is a nasty cliquey mostly white, mostly male place at the best of times and this young black woman looks as if she is breaking a few rules and bringing in a much needed wind of change. It was the most exciting thing I've seen in the art world in many many years and I congratulate this spunky, proud and talented woman. If she hadn't ignored me I would have told her myself. Go Cato - keep going - break a few of those horrendous barriers - there will be a number of women so right behind you, you will be able to feel us breathing in your ear. .
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Alicia Pearl Cato BA degree show private view. #aliciapearlcato #wimbledonual #wimbledoncollegeofart #wimbledoncollegeofarts #wimbledondegreeshow #wimbledondegreeshow2019 #blackartists #blackwoman #blackwomanhood #femaleartist #blackfemaleartist #blackfemaleartists #blackfemaleartistsdoexist #artconsultant #white #didmegoodtogettinyinsightintohowitfeelstobeignored

I absolutely loved this clever, mysterious, discombobulating painting when I saw it in Alex's studio. This work is for sale at tonight's amazing @33artsale where 33 percent of the sale of every piece of art goes directly to the Rural Refugee Network and Children on the Edge. There are some fab works in the show so do yourself a favour, an artist a favour and someone in need a favour - and get a wiggle on down to Borden House, Langrish GU32 1EP tonight 6-9pm.
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Alex Rennie 'Home from Home no 4' #alexrennie #oilonlinen #33artsale #ruralrefugeenetwork #childrenontheedge #charityart #artforcharity #charitable #artcollector #artsale #artforsale #artforinteriors #artofinterior #interiordesign #artconsultant #artadvice #arthelp #gratefultohaveahome

Two friends have now mentioned they want to paint a room this colour that they have spotted it on insta from this year's summer exhibition at the RA. Makes me smile because Liv and I painted our sitting room this exact colour when we bought our first flat in 1996. It felt jolly. It was 'only' 23 years ago so surely time for a resurgence. We even painted a thin strip of the coving to link the room - a very @turnerpocock trick. Proof that everything old is always new again. We'll all be sponging the walls terracotta next.........
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Detail from the summer exhibition. 'Bob and Roberta Smith and Rachel McDonnell' #royalacademyofarts #summerexhibition2019 #bobandrobertasmith #rachelmcdonnell #redwall #featurewall #theredwall #statementwall #paint #retropaintcolour #retrostyle #90s #90sdecor #artconsultant #havingaflashback #seeingred

My favourite painting at The Summer Exhibition this year. 'Clara with Van Dyck eye' by Derrick Guild. Clara the rhinoceros was a female Indian rhinoceros who became famous during 17 years of touring Europe in the mid-18th century. She arrived in Europe in Rotterdam in 1741, becoming the fifth living rhinoceros to be seen in Europe in modern times since Dürer's Rhinoceros in 1515. This is a painting that makes me think of many things: that what we may think is a novelty may not be to someone else, that what was once a novelty ultimately always ceases to be and that its all about the lens through which you see everything that affects your view. I'd love to talk to the artist about this work - its a brilliantly conceived thing and would look amazing on many walls, but it would be the questions it makes you ponder while looking at it that would make it a lifelong friend.
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Derrick Guild 'Clara with Van Dyck eye' #derrickguild #clara #claratherhinoceros #vandyck #royalacademysummerexhibition #summerexhibition2019 #ilovethesummerexhibition #artconsultant #cantthinkofabetterwaytospendafridaynight

Thanks to the wonderful @ddavidonaldd and @hesterfinchw for loaning me some beautiful work for this shoot that was recently featured in @marieclairemaison. I am delighted that David's work is now winging its way to a wonderful new home. Hester's beautiful piece above my fireplace is still available. Please DM me for details. Thanks to @benedictedrummond for the photography and placement. .
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A very ''a la mode''issue of Marie Claire Maison featuring two paintings of mine at the lovely home of @louisawarfield_artconsultancy in London. 🐩
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#daviddonald #emergingart #emergingartist #emergingartists #instaart #artcollector #degreeart #degreeshowart #artconsultant #emergingartspecialist

Sometimes it takes a fresh eye to make you look at something you have done in a different way. I hadn't realised that I'd applied my own art hanging eye to these chopping boards of mine above this little sink in the corner of my kitchen. If you'd like me to come and suggest how to hang work (or chopping boards!) in your home, a consultation costs £150 for two hours.
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Every time I walk into my friend’s kitchen I am drawn to this corner of the room, where this little gem sits. I love the composition, the stone, the black boards, the warm wood. It all works for me ... so much I had to share it. Hope you like it as much as I do. #interiordesign #kitchens #kitchensinks #blacktaps #penmaninteriors #blackcreekmercantile #blackwood #arthanging #hangart #hangingart #hangingadvice #hangingconsultation #artconsultation #artconsultant #cantstophanging

The George in Yarmouth is under new ownership and with said owner Howard Spooner stating he wants to 'inject some fun into Yarmouth', I took this Hoff installation outside as an encouraging sign 😂. Please DM me if you would like to rent my Yarmouth cottage - from £300 night - sleeps 9. .
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The Hoff with Pamela's wig outside @thegeorgehotelyarmouth @thegeorgehotelisleofwight @spoonerhoward #thegeorgehotelyarmouth #injectmorefun #thehoff #housetorent #iowholidays #iow #yarmouthiow #iloveiow #yarmouthhouse #artconsultant #lookingforwardtothesummer

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