My Own Art Collection

To start creating your Own Art Collection, just scroll down the page and locate your preferred room style from the menu below. Once you’ve done this, you will be able to view and select up to 5 works of art for your collection. Finally, customise your room setting by selecting your choice of furniture and other items. You can create as many rooms as you like.

Paintings/Drawings

Artist

Chris Buck

Title

Through the Sands of Time

Medium

Bronze

Price

1050

Gallery

Broadway Modern

About This Artwork

Chris Buck is the son of a toolmaker. He studied at Redruth School of Art and then, going back to his industrial roots, he worked in several foundries which gave him a thorough knowledge of casting techniques and general metal and woodwork. He has been inspired by the St Ives abstract artists, predominantly Dame Barbara Hepworth and Dennis Mitchell, and has joined the Penwith Society of Arts himself. Producing sculpture in both wood and stone, it is with bronze that he finds greatest satisfaction, combining natural forms and industrial precision to achieve individual pieces.
Artist

Tolly Nason

Title

Crustaceous

Medium

Pate-de-Verre (glass work)

Price

695

Gallery

Cambridge Galleries

About This Artwork

Tolly’s innovative works combine a variety of modern and traditional media and techniques - glass and weave, sculpture, fine art and design- challenging established boundaries between disciplines. Her work encompasses the qualities in glass she appreciates the most – its diverse nature, its vulnerability and its solidity. “Using methods such as Pâte-de-Verre I aim to extract and express the beauty of glass in its very fragile state, forming a ‘crust’ or an exoskeleton of what could be there - an artwork that has shed its skin and is left bare, exposed, raw and beautiful”
Artist

Julia Linstead

Title

Fish Bowl

Medium

Etched blown glass

Price

460

Gallery

Connell & Hart

About This Artwork

This bowl is hand blown by Jane Charles with a double inner casing of colour. Once the piece is annealed the inside is masked, the patterns are hand drawn and the mask is removed and carefully sandblasted to create the design. (photo: Paul Connell)
Artist

Anne Vibeke Mou

Title

Untitled

Medium

Pencil on paper

Price

1200

Gallery

Globe City Gallery

About This Artwork

Anne Vibeke Mou traces time with the promise of revelation. Her work explores how materials may effect a momentary suspension in the dialectics of change, entropy and fix. Mou’s practice moves between drawing and sculpture, from slow, compulsive processes of making to accidental encounters and the found object. Currently, the making of her drawings involves the application of many tiny marks following a rigidly defined horizontal grid. The image evolves from this process as densities of the marks vary over lengthy periods of time. Intense repetition of tiny individual marks reveals the paradoxical collision of the apocalyptic with the sublime.
Artist

Elizabeth Swinburne

Title

On the Fence

Medium

Cast glass with Oak

Price

600

Gallery

Contemporary Applied Arts

About This Artwork

This is a piece from a new collection by well established glass artist Elizabeth Swinburne. Elizabeth has just started to re-visit ideas of mixing glass with other materials The pieces Elizabeth currently make are made using a combination of free blown glass and kiln casting techniques.
Artist

Duncan Ross

Title

Untitled

Medium

Ceramic

Price

800

Gallery

Contemporary Ceramics

About This Artwork

Working with burnished earthenware, Duncan Ross has developed a range of individual forms with which he aims to achieve a sense of balance, with surface patterns that repeat and move in curves and sweeping lines. These textures are built up using inlaid and resisted layers of sigillata. The work is fired several times and strongly smoked to create a range of colours from oranges to greens and blacks.
Artist

Katherina Vones

Title

Sea Urchin Cluster Pendant

Medium

Silver, 18c gold and silicone

Price

530

Gallery

Craft Shop at the Royal Exchange…

About This Artwork

Jewellery which explores the vibrant colours and movement of marine life. Part of our ‘Ocean Treasures’ exhibition which runs from 16th Sept – 1st Nov 2008. “By bringing together different materials I hope to develop an aesthetic which does not merely emulate nature, but instead aims to mutate the artificial into the natural. The juxtaposition of the human figure and the natural environment is at the centre of my artistic vision.”
Artist

Emmanuel Cooper

Title

Stem Bowl

Medium

Porcelain, thrown and turned,…

Price

290

Gallery

Crafts Study Centre

About This Artwork

Emmanuel Cooper is highly respected as a potter and as a writer. He explores colour and texture with vibrant yellow and red glazes emphasising the serene elegance of his chosen forms. The works cross ceramic boundaries, with allusions to Oriental and European ceramic traditions. Perfection of form and vitality of colour are the hallmarks of this work.
Artist

Angela Chalmers

Title

Silence 3

Medium

Ink on Indian rag paper

Price

550

Gallery

Grosmont Gallery

About This Artwork

Angela uses the process of painting and drawing with a variety of watercolour media and handmade paper to explore the human form. Her work is influenced by her attraction towards eroded surfaces that reveal a passage of time and draws inspiration from sculpture and friezes from ancient cultures.
Artist

Selwyn Holmes

Title

Spirit Plaque

Medium

Wood veneers

Price

150

Gallery

Dansel Gallery

About This Artwork

Selwyn Holmes is a designer/maker of wood pieces using veneers and hardwoods experimenting with different surface finishes and textures often dictated by the nature of the type of wood used. These surface finishes are used on sculptures, containers and vessels but other items include boxes, mirrors and clocks. Influences include architecture and organic forms.
Artist

Blandine Anderson

Title

Hare on the Hill

Medium

Ceramics

Price

360

Gallery

Devon Guild of Craftsmen

About This Artwork

Stoneware hand built sculpture. This one off piece depicts a Hare running down a hill in Blandine’s unique way. The side of the hill has other imagery of hares sgraffitoed on to the side.
Artist

Diana Porter

Title

Being Ring Set

Medium

Silver & 22ct yellow gold etch,…

Price

1132

Gallery

Diana Porter Contemporary Jewellery…

About This Artwork

A beautiful set of plain and etched Diana Porter silver and 18ct yellow gold rings, with a sparkle of diamond. These can be worn as a set or choose the words you feel the most affinity to and create your own unique collection. The words used in the being collection are inspired by life’s journey and all its stages: being, crying, hearing, seeing, playing, growing, learning, planning, weaving, roving, striving, twisting, winning, loving, knowing, aching, losing, accepting, laughing, dreaming, sleeping.
Artist

Christopher Johnstone

Title

Arcadia

Medium

Ceramic

Price

200

Gallery

Divine

About This Artwork

Christopher Johnstone set up his own business in 2001 working as a freelance prosthetic make-up artist and teacher in the local community whilst developing my unique sculpted characters of mis-shapen, yet friendly teddy bears, cats and bats. He is currently working on my long term project which is to bring my Reject Bears to life in a stop-motion animation.
Artist

Gill Levin

Title

Through the Dark Trees

Medium

Oil on board

Price

775

Gallery

Harleston Gallery

About This Artwork

Born in Hampton, brought up in Chelsea, Gill studied music for 7 years before attending Chelsea Art School. After graduating she worked for the Design Centre, Haymarket and was a member of the F H K Henrion Group of Designers. Later she branched out on her own as a silversmith and later as a potter. She was a founder member of The Temperance Seven in the fifties and has been playing in classical orchestras & jazz groups ever since. This painting is part of Gill’s retrospective exhibition entitled ‘A Lifetime’s Work’
Artist

Aran D Higgs

Title

Eight Fold Salver

Medium

Stainless Steel

Price

246.75

Gallery

Djanogly Gallery

About This Artwork

Aran D Higgs works with metals such as titanium, pewter, copper and stainless steel. Through a technically complex process he engineers the metamorphosis of sheets of metal into sculptural pieces making forms that are functional and expressive, accentuated by rhythms of folded edges. He uses traditional methods of hand-crafting, complimented by the highly accurate processes of laser and water jet cutting