I always enjoy looking through the printed Christmas Cards we receive through the post each year. There is always one that stirs my emotions when I look at the image printed on the front of the card. In my case the ones that appeal to me are usually watercolour paintings of some local scene. For some reason these are often seaside resorts. There must be embedded in my consciousness some memory stored imagery that when it matches up with the image on the Christmas Card fires my emotions. Maybe its whilst on holiday I am enjoying myself so much that images are more deeply recorded into the memory banks. Anyway. This year (2023) it was a watercolour called Harbourside by Terry Harrison.
So I did my usual Google search and sadly found that Terry
Harrison (1951 – 2017) was deceased. But his legacy was being upheld by wife Fiona
Peart who is also a watercolour artist with her painting just as appealing to
me. Terry was obviously a very industrious artist both in his paintings sold
through his own Fine Art Publishing Company but also in the ideas he marketed in
terms of jigsaw puzzles, paint brushes and paints. My interest in art extends
into how artists now make a living by making use of the internet based technologies.
Many artists are now able to support themselves working at home or in a small
studio by using the internet. To me this is the opportunity for artists themselves
to win back ownership from the large corporate world that has for too long controlled
these sales channels to the public.
So take a look at Terry Harrison and Fiona Peart on their respective
websites with links below. Fiona like me also blogs on Blogspot (Google owned) so I have included her
link as well.
https://fionapeart.blogspot.com
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