Purchasing your first artwork and starting an art collection shouldn’t feel like a daunting task. You may be well versed on what it is that you want but if you are not, that is ok too. This doesn’t need to be a life-defining moment with a clear path on what artists, medium or theme you are interested in. Have fun, follow some sensible steps and time will do the rest.
My top tips on purchasing your first artwork…
Last June 24th was summer’s solstice, the day with the longest daylight period of the year. I decided to spend it in Sicily, finding inspiration in the flower bursts, warm colours and rustic and cinematic interiors. A cross between Il Gattopardo and La Dolce Vita, a midsummer dream…
Because hang-overs are better off with a Bloody Mary in hand, we cannot go high and dry after Art Basel last week. Below is a little selection of some of the best shows that you can still catch up in London this June.
Adding to the visual abundance we will see in the week ahead during Art Basel seems redundant. What follows is my contribution to art collecting with sensitivity.
There are a number of must-attend international events in the yearly art calendar and Berlin Biennale is one of them. For anyone interested in seeing artists at an early stage who are laying the ground to potentially shape the art world in the future, this is it.
“I find images and I let them rest. Then at some point I know the feeling I am looking for or the idea I am after. I go through many different boxes of images that I have bought in markets or found somewhere, work them digitally… and when I see images together, I know where I need to go. Many times I am wrong; images don’t do what I thought they would and they don’t work; or they do work but not in the way I want.”