Photogold Online Art Gallery

Suzan Wolters .Suzan is a full time artist and has been for the past 25 years.
Suzan:”My love for working in clay is one of my most vivid childhood memories, I have been growing up with paint and clay, it was almost inevitable that I was being drawn to dedicate my live sculpting and painting. From my early twenties up to now I have been sculpting and painting, at first reproductions of antique dolls in porcelain, after that I sculpted infants in polymer clay and later my well known and recognizable happy plus-size woman in their full form.
I have always been enchanted with sculpts and paintings of big woman, in particulair happy ones, they are often so much more buoyant and graceful than thinner woman”.

Suzan received for her sculptings several prestigious prices at International art shows in New York. Her sculptings are collectible items in Japan, the USA, Australia, Russia and Europe.

“A few years ago my mother moved to a new house and asked me to paint her a big happy woman, I thought that would be a fun thing to do and a passion emerged….I was hooked!
Every time I am working on a painting I get ‘bewitched’ in putting together a voluptuous confident and happy female,it is a very fulfilling and gratifying experience.
I work mainly from live models, beautiful plus size woman with a positive image of themselves.

A ‘feel good’ mood and a smile is what Suzan is hoping for when people view her work.

Suzan Wolters admits to being a big fan of Beryl Cook

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Jack Vettriano has revealed he turned down the chance to produce a painting for the National Galleries of Scotland - because they asked for a portrait of golfer Colin Montgomerie .

He said: “I was in France when I got a call from my art dealer, who said there might have been a breakthrough. ‘The national galleries would like you to do a portrait’. I said, ‘Who?’. ‘Colin Montgomerie’.

“I said, ‘I’m afraid that the answer is no’, I don’t do men with breasts, and I don’t mean that as unkind to Colin Montgomerie (sic) . My art dealer said, ‘Think about it’ and I said, ‘I have, and the answer is no’.”

Later in the evening at the event, An Audience with Jack Vettriano, the artist was asked if he would ever paint a man as anything other than a prop for women. He replied: “I have to paint a face I like. Have you seen Colin Montgomerie’s face recently?”

However, gallery chiefs denied knowledge of any approach being made and insisted the NGS had not commissioned a portrait of the golfer.

Vettriano has had a long-running feud with the arts establishment and he has never had any of his work in a major gallery

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Photogold has a complete set of 8 Jack Vettriano silkscreen prints consisting of Along Came a Spider, Game of Life , Parlour of Temptation ,Table for One , Models in the Studio , Words of Wisdom , Drifters and Altar of Memory for sale . This set of signed silkscreens is considered by many to be his best ever collection .

Print details - Limited edition signed , silkscreen prints by Jack Vettriano SIZE 295 Published August 2004 PAPER 400gsm Velin Arches Blanc IMAGE SIZE 16 by 20 inches PAPER SIZE 26 by 22 inches . Delivery 7 to 10 days . Order by phone for free UK delivery 01324 883305

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Jack Vettriano’s painting of Zara Phillips for Sports relief with her reclining on a Union flag  is up for auction. It is  predicted to defy the credit crunch and fetch a stunning £1 million.
“We hope people will start bidding from £100,000,” says a spokesman for Bonhams, which is conducting the auction in aid of Sport Relief. “It’s a very rare piece and the only one of a young royal around that is up for auction. We would love it to hit the million mark and certainly think it is a possibility.”
“I was shaking and she had to calm me down before we started,” says Vettriano. “It was always going to be a more natural rather than a formal portrait.”
The Fife-born artist’s paintings now sell at high prices. Whether this work can beat his previous record of £744,800, for the  The Singing Butler  in 2004 remains to be seen.

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Photogold is the UK’s first online art gallery. It was established in September 1998 . Photogold E-commerce now offers website packages for artists who want to start selling their work online.

Photogold can set up an art blog to establish an artist’s presence online and offer  prints and paintings for sale .A blog is a web log or online journal

What are the advantages of a blog ?

each post is automatically sent to blog directories and search engines , including Google Blogsearch , and can be found almost instantly
you can develop your own network or community online
a blog can promote a brand in a subtle and effective way
you can offer your products for sale from a built-in shopping cart in the blog
a blog can be designed in a search engine friendly way to maximise the number of visitors
A blog must be unique and most of its uniqueness can come from the personality of the blogger.Photogold offers a blog set up and design service for companies - Total cost £250
- your own unique domain
- hosting for one year
- layout and theme of your choice - choose from thousands of different designs
- Built in shopping cart to take orders online
- registration with Google Blog Search and Technorati , the 2 biggest online blog directories plus submission to 50 other directories

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