(Trade currently suspended. Lucked down. Site last updated 21 January 2022.
Caveat: During pandemic and Brexit shortages, if anyone wants to panic-buy paintings, I'll consider re-opening.)
Caveat: During pandemic and Brexit shortages, if anyone wants to panic-buy paintings, I'll consider re-opening.)
Of all the websites in all the world - over a billion - you’ve walked into mine.
You’re hooked. You’ll never get away. I’d make a run for it now while you can.
Otherwise you and I are going to talk paintings till the cows come home. And I will have forgotten to do all the things I’m supposed to do, like ‘closing the sale’ and other marketing gimmicks. Before you know where you are, I will have interrupted your day. You’ll have found out everything you need to know about me. You’ll have made up your mind whether you're interested in my limited edition giclée prints - £75 plus postage. Or maybe you want to commission a work (whoopee!) - free delivery UK wide - or buy an existing picture (more whoopee!) which will become an instant family heirloom for generations? Call me, 07881 908903, email me jim@kelso.co.uk, arrange to visit. Check me out. Remember, photographs can only show so much. You’ve never ‘seen’ a painting until you have actually ‘seen’ it, in 3D, in real life. Nothing can replace that experience. I look forward to seeing you - do you take sugar? Oh, and by the way, if you or maybe one of your children, ever get stuck with a painting or drawing problem maybe I can help out, gratis. Or maybe you can help me out, I'm often baffled.!
And yet another by the way.
Please note the painting of the bearded gentleman above is not a self-portrait. It is a copy of a masterpiece by van Dyck that hangs in the Rockox House Museum, Antwerp. The title of the van Dyck work is, Studies of a Man’s Head. It shows a head in two positions. I painted only one. That was hard enough.
And yet another by the way.
Please note the painting of the bearded gentleman above is not a self-portrait. It is a copy of a masterpiece by van Dyck that hangs in the Rockox House Museum, Antwerp. The title of the van Dyck work is, Studies of a Man’s Head. It shows a head in two positions. I painted only one. That was hard enough.
'The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible.'
Oscar Wilde
Exhibitions:
The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, The Royal Society of British Artists (RBA), The Royal Festival Hall,
The London Stock Exchange, Saatchi Online, Marylebone Gallery, Artweeks Oxfordshire, Watlington Library and other venues.
Paintings in private collections in America, Australia, Britain, France and Sweden and prints sold worldwide.
The London Stock Exchange, Saatchi Online, Marylebone Gallery, Artweeks Oxfordshire, Watlington Library and other venues.
Paintings in private collections in America, Australia, Britain, France and Sweden and prints sold worldwide.
Browse, borrow, buy.
My home is my gallery. The sign above the door, if there were one, would read:
Authentic, original artwork for sale, direct from the artist, one-to-one, mask-to-mask.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT - OF THE BLITHERINGLY OBVIOUS.
I sell drawings, paintings and prints to art buyers, art directors, architects, interior designers, art lovers
and private collectors. To anyone, in fact, who has a lonely nail in a wall with nothing hanging on it.
I welcome studio visits - by appointment - comments, opinions, ideas, commissions and custom.
0% finance and easy terms available on certain items. This can include loans of a painting so you can view
it in your own home before purchase. Loans apply to some originals only, not prints.
SNAPSHOT
I was recently interviewed by a media hot shot who fired machine gun questions at me.
What is my medium? Oils, acrylics, watercolour, graphite.
What is my style? Representational.
Size of works? A4 to whatever will fit under my arm and in my car.
Number of works in Artweeks 2022 exhibition Three paintings, sundry prints.
Theme? Two landscapes: Watlington Mark, and Vespers, one still life.
Colours? Natural
What inspires me? The work of other artists.
What do I love about my work?Listening to music as I paint.
Childhood? Learning, aged five, from my Uncle Jack to paint what I still think of as an Uncle-Jack-Scape.
Travel? Have travelled widely in an ersatz fashion, mainly cruising.
How long have I lived in Oxfordshire? 40+ years.
Where do I work? Garden shed.
Describe my passion. Depiction.
Phew!.
Tel: 07881 908903 - jim@kelso.co.uk
Authentic, original artwork for sale, direct from the artist, one-to-one, mask-to-mask.
ARTIST'S STATEMENT - OF THE BLITHERINGLY OBVIOUS.
I sell drawings, paintings and prints to art buyers, art directors, architects, interior designers, art lovers
and private collectors. To anyone, in fact, who has a lonely nail in a wall with nothing hanging on it.
I welcome studio visits - by appointment - comments, opinions, ideas, commissions and custom.
0% finance and easy terms available on certain items. This can include loans of a painting so you can view
it in your own home before purchase. Loans apply to some originals only, not prints.
SNAPSHOT
I was recently interviewed by a media hot shot who fired machine gun questions at me.
What is my medium? Oils, acrylics, watercolour, graphite.
What is my style? Representational.
Size of works? A4 to whatever will fit under my arm and in my car.
Number of works in Artweeks 2022 exhibition Three paintings, sundry prints.
Theme? Two landscapes: Watlington Mark, and Vespers, one still life.
Colours? Natural
What inspires me? The work of other artists.
What do I love about my work?Listening to music as I paint.
Childhood? Learning, aged five, from my Uncle Jack to paint what I still think of as an Uncle-Jack-Scape.
Travel? Have travelled widely in an ersatz fashion, mainly cruising.
How long have I lived in Oxfordshire? 40+ years.
Where do I work? Garden shed.
Describe my passion. Depiction.
Phew!.
Tel: 07881 908903 - jim@kelso.co.uk