week 41 - Affordable Art Fair, London

I was down in London for the day job and was able to go and spend the evening at the Affordable Art Fair in Battersea Park, London - every work of art is under £3K. It was really quite good, I was impressed to see a lot of painting, also many nice printmaking galleries with prints in the £100 - £200 range.

Here was the entrance - free wine (well it wasn't free, we had to pay £20 to get in) so we took advantage of a few glasses.


The rows of galleries, it is like an art conference really. Art, art, everywhere.


This was an amazing sculpture, it was made out of strips of fabric, fashioned into the flower forms with was a metal container of engine oil on the plinth. The 'stem' of the lowest flower was just touching the oil.



The fabric was slowly soaking up the engine oil and dis-colouring the fabric. It was absolutely beautiful - sublime.


These were my favourite paintings at the art fair - in a stall put up by a gallery in Madrid.
The painter had a little theme of 'light, dark, light' in his compositions, but by far the best one was the one under the beach pier. (Parking garage one was second favourite)


I could have looked at it for hours, honestly truly a fantastic use of paint and drawing. I was very impressed. Look at how he captured the play of light on the sand...


And finally, the art fair had quite a funny sub-text (well funny to this Texan). Cows.
Cows everywhere. Shaggy ones, funny ones, paintings, prints, sculptures...I took a picture of most of them (some galleries were not as happy about you taking photos...)








This one was my favourite cow picture. It was just really funny!
The scale, the brushwork, the framing, the brave HAIRS on this cows nose...if I had a place in my kitchen for artwork (I don't) I would have bought this one (well if I could have afforded it...) because it just made me LAUGH!




Perhaps next year I can go and buy something???