Selling Artwork Tips to Sell your Art So, you love making art and would love to make a living from it, but selling artwork can be difficult. As a gallery that is built on the renting and selling of art, we have 3 top tips for you.Selling Artwork Top Tip #1: Finding the right Gallery There are many galleries around Auckland, so it is very important to know the gallery you’re trying to get involved with and if it is appropriate to approach them. Not all galleries are focused on the selling or renting of art, so make sure you research them well. How to make money: Sell or … [Read more...]
Colourful Abstract Artist Constanza Briceno
Colourful Abstract Artist Constanza Briceno | Methodical Disorder Colourful Abstract Artist Constanza Briceno, born, raised and educated in Santiago de Chile, art has always been a part of her life. At 8 years old she was painting with oils but was unable to continue painting with them in her university years. The nature of making art within an institution demanded fast drying times for weekly submission, which oils did not allow. As a result, Constanza Briceno extended her knowledge and artistic practice to encompass photography, installation, and prints.When creating prints, she found … [Read more...]
Two New Zealand Landscape Painters
Two New Zealand Landscape Painters David Gibbons' and Jill Perrott's approach as landscape painters A basic understanding of landscape painting is that landscape painters create art that holds depictions of natural scenery, but what else? When looking at landscape paintings there is a variety of styles and understanding of representing nature that not everyone shares. While some landscape painters capture with precision to what is seen, others attempt to capture what it felt like to be there. They want to represent something specific about the landscape. The latter is what will be discussed … [Read more...]
Interior Designers | Tips for Working with Interior Designers
Interior Designers |Tips for Working with Interior Designers Do you want your home to look good while being comfortable and functional? Then read on for tips for working with Interior DesignersGood Interior Designers will help you create the home you have always wanted. Interior designers help by pulling aspects of colour and texture together while also knowing how to alter the flow and feel of a room. This results in making your home not only beautiful but functional.Interior Designers turn people's homes into dreams come true on a regular basis. This means they have an … [Read more...]
Painting and Photography
Painting and Photography Why Paint? What better way to start talking about Painting and Photography than to look at the festival of photography. The Auckland Festival of Photography has prompted a question that has haunted painters for a long time... why paint? Particularly when it can take seconds to capture something with a camera. One of the wonderful things about art is how it captures and presents a way of seeing the world. Consequently sharing those ways of seeing with others, and broadening one's own way of seeing.Something that has come from the relationship between painting and … [Read more...]
SIZE MATTERS! Tips for selecting the right artwork
SIZE MATTERS! Tips for selecting the right artworkSo you have created a lovely home – but still have lots of empty walls.No matter whether it’s an original artwork or a canvas print, any designer will advise you that adding the right artwork to your room will enhance your décor, bring out the accent colours and complete the room.Good artwork will often become an eye-catching focal point to any room. The question is “how do you go about selecting the right art”?Here are five simple steps you can follow to ensure you do make the right choice when it comes to art: 1 … [Read more...]
The Importance of Artwork in the Office
Are your office walls screaming; "I don't care?" In today’s competitive environment, there is a focus on creating work environments that will entice the best and brightest employees. Bare walls look sterile and boring, while those with bright and exciting pieces of art make an otherwise unremarkable office come to life with character and personality. Similarly, offices which have been decorated years ago with mass produced artwork for the office, which has long since faded into the background, seem unloved and uncared for places. Compare this to work places where unique artworks have been … [Read more...]