What’s on your walls at home?

[JKX]

Have you filled your home with fantastic stuff. fantastically framed, or is it more a case of “the cobblers kids go barefoot”?

I learned to draw, very well, and I did calligraphy - I always wanted to fill the place with that but never got round to it. I also intended to reframe a couple of things before retiring and never got round to that either!

Anyway, here’s some favourites

My medals with badge, “flash” & hackle. Spacers are regimental belt/tie colours with mess dress tunic buttons. It served as a prop in the shop for years and was reframed several times.

Two diamond shaped etchings by “Legarf” which our alpha one marketing (if anyone remembers them) rep assured us, would increase in value. I doubt they have but we like them. We sold plenty of their stuff.

A montage of our journey - a Tim Bulmer commission, and a set of 2012 Olympic 50p pieces, very collectible apparently. (Ignore wallpaper to right where I digitally removed a light switch!)

I painted the flowers in the vase for a laugh, there were some very similar type things selling by one of the big publishers for silly money. I thought even I can do that, so I did! Sold quite a few for about 4 times more than the overpriced limited editions. NOT copies - just similar style.

Uliana’s dream and then Pannonia, silkscreens from CCA galleries, by Csaba Markus - now worth silly money - well, priced at, not sure about “worth”
Google them.
I hate the frames, was going to reframe them and put them under museum glass before we retired and never did. Uliana is above “Leighton” a buzzard carved with a chainsaw!


Finally my first attempt at a watercolour, did it on the kitchen table in 1987 following step by step instructions from a book by Roland Hilder, whose work I love, Kent’s landscape evolved to suit his paintings! The big dead tree was supposed to be an oast house chimney but I didn’t have the confidence for a round thing! But that also acted as a prop in the shop and sold a hell of a lot of washlines and triple mounts!

(Edit) I see, on my phone, some of the images rotate when clicked on, sorry- annoying forum glitch I can’t be bothered to edit!

[prospero]

I have an oil painting (what I did) on my wall. It's been there at least 20 years.
No frame and just perched on a hook by the stretcher bars.

How's that for cobbler's kids.

[vintage frames]

I'd be too frightened to hang any of my own frames on the wall.
I'd be constantly looking for faults every time I walked past.

We have three frames hanging in the whole house.
One an antique original, the other two picked up from the local dump.

Frugal living.

[JKX]

Ok - so far we have one piece of artwork with no frame, and three frames with no artwork!

[vintage frames]

Ah no, not quite.

Three frames and all with antiquarian prints inside.

Predictable, I know.

[Keith Hewitt]

You guys surprise me with so little on your walls , apart from John aka JKX.
Looking at the wall I'm facing there are 13 framed pictures , From Italy 2, Vietnam 3, Abu Dhabi 1, Sweden 1 and UK 6,
Including one JKX would approve of, 4 pics in one frame of an old friend, who captained a ship landing troops at Sword Beach June 1944. Monty was on his ship and wanted to go ashore with the first landing craft. My friend told Monty " You can go when I tell you". I learnt the captain of a Royal Navy ship has command of all on board, even if its Monty

Must count all the other pictures one day.
At least my local framers get plenty of work from me

[JKX]

Photos would be good!

Keith - I’m glad from all your travels you have something from Abu Dhabi and not Dubai.

Dubai is a strange place, they don’t like the flintstones

….. but the people in Abu Dhabi do.