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<span style='color: #008080;'>Staithes Group and Staithes Art Club Pictures in our Harrogate Exhibition</span>

Please click on the title above for details and pictures of works by members of the Staithes Group and the Staithes Art Club, Yorkshire's forgotten Impressionist artists of a century ago - our specialism for thirty five years. All those shown will be for sale in our Harrogate exhibition.

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We would be grateful if you could let us know if you attend lectures, other than our own, where pictures and information from this site are used.
Thanks
Rosamund

<span style='color: #008080;'>The Turner Prize and The Campaign for Real Art</span>

Click on the above title if you want to confound crtics constrained by the Emperor's New Clothes syndrome and make REAL ART dominate Conceptual 'Art'.

<span style='color: #008080;'>Child Trust Funds need to be merged with Junior Isas</span>

My new campaign! Click on the title above to learn more and sign a petition!

<span style='color: #008080;'>Pitmen Painters: Professionals from County Durham</span>

Click on the titles below for more information and pictures. Look especially at our favourite 'Pitman Painters': Tom McGuinness and Norman Cornish, of the Spennymoor Settlement rather than the Ashington . Exhibiting at Newcastle's Stone Gallery alongside Lowry their work has the emotional flow that comes from experiencing their subject and honing their craft.

<span style='color: #008080;'>Modern British Pictures</span>

This section contains work by a number of artists, including contemporary Scottish colourists, Len Tabner and Christopher P. Wood. please be patient as we get these pictures on line.

<span style='color: #008080;'>Pictures of Staithes</span>

Staithes: this quintessential small English fishing village has changed little in appearance over the last century. Why it, and its artists colony of a century ago, should still be less well known than similar Cornish fishing villages defies belief, as these pictures testify!

<span style='color: #008080;'>How stand fitters let us down</span>

Kibex who had always stand-fitted our Harrogate exhibitions have been bought bey another firm. They failed to turn up at the promised time the day before our last exhibition (the first - and only) they were booked to do for us.

Click on the title above to see what happened next.

<span style='color: #008080;'>Droit de Suite - a seller's or a buyer's royalty payment?</span>

A discussion on the abuse of Section 13 of Statutory Instrument 2006 No. 346: The Artist's Resale Right Regulations 2006.

<span style='color: #008080;'>Other Pictures of Yorkshire Subjects and/or by Yorkshire Artists</span>

Click on each artist's name to see works in stock.

<span style='color: #008080;'>Campaign for Real Art</span>

Please go to my 'The Turner Prize and The Campaign for Real Art section near the top of my index.
(I've left this connection live as it is easy to Google!)

<span style='color: #008080;'>Conceptual Art</span>

The concept is merely the beginning of a work of art - not an end in itself. Please click on the title above for more!

<span style='color: #008080;'>Buying Art: an Attractive Alternative Investment</span>

One of the greatest dilemmas of the present economic situation is where to put savings.

Click on the title above for our advice.

<span style='color: #008080;'>Art Works versus Works of Art</span>

Sorry - a personal irritation which I want to articulate.
I'm coming to loathe the term 'Art Work' progressively more. CLICK ON the title 'Art Works versus Works of Art' above to see if you agree or not - otherwise ignore this!

<span style='color: #008080;'>LAPADA Dealers</span>

As specialist dealers we are long-term members of LAPADA, The Association of Art & Antiques Dealers. As such we can confidently assure you that the following points hold true when buying from ourselves:
· Buying art and antiques is an investment not an expense
· Like your house, an antique is an investment that you can enjoy everyday
· Antiques appreciate over time as supply is cut off. Therefore, long-term, demand will always outstrip supply
· New products depreciate in value the minute they leave the shop
· Association dealers can be trusted
· Collecting art and antiques gives life-long pleasure
· Antiques never go out of fashion
· Some of the most sophisticated interiors combine works of art from different periods