David Brett
7 tips for hanging art in your home
You've invested in a new, original work of art and whether it's intended to be a statement centrepiece or a small pop of creativity in a...
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David Brett
- Jan 6
- 2 min
Want to jumpstart your creativity in the New Year? Keep doing the same thing
Every new year starts with good intentions — a resolution to do this, that, or the other. And this need to ring in the new at the same...
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David Brett
- Nov 23, 2023
- 4 min
Driven to abstraction: the best art to buy right now
If you've been toying with the idea of buying art, perhaps even musing about building a collection, you are not alone. But having...
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David Brett
- Nov 10, 2023
- 3 min
The secret to great authentic art ... it's surprisingly simple
Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom — Aristotle You might have come across this philosophical nugget, but phrased...
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David Brett
- Oct 14, 2023
- 2 min
Guess the famous artist… and you could grab a bargain
It is not every day you get the chance to have your art appear alongside a whole roster of artistic luminaries — not to mention other...
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David Brett
- Aug 15, 2023
- 2 min
Record-breaking sales push art prices up 30% as other investments flounder
Art, as I’ve mentioned before, is good for you. Not only does it provide a number of different routes to a state of wellbeing (see my...
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David Brett
- Aug 1, 2023
- 4 min
The best paintings in the world… and how artists choose what to create
It doesn't take too long online to find a blog listing the best paintings that you simply must see in whichever art gallery in the world....
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David Brett
- Apr 24, 2023
- 4 min
Why you should invest in art — and artists
Imagine this: you spent your life working for the post office, never having earned more than £23,000 a year. You lived for 50 years in a...
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David Brett
- Feb 14, 2023
- 4 min
5 ways looking at art is good for your health
We all want better health, to feel less stressed, more content and just plain happier. Yet the pressures of modern life seem to conspire...
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David Brett
- Dec 6, 2022
- 4 min
'Sensational' Cezanne scores a hit at the Tate
Tom Hanks, in the guise of Forrest Gump famously decreed that life was like a box of chocolates. It has been the lot of the...
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David Brett
- Sep 29, 2022
- 5 min
How to develop your own artistic style
There are two paintings hung next to each other on the wall. They are by different artists, but otherwise are the same size, of a similar...
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David Brett
- Aug 10, 2022
- 4 min
4 ways sketchbooks can boost your art
Every now and then the well of inspiration for creating art runs a little dry. Or so it seems. Although it doesn’t feel it, this is a...
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David Brett
- Aug 1, 2022
- 3 min
Cornelia Parker: Tate's retrospective is a blast
If one of the purposes of art is to take the commonplace, hold it against the light and show it from a different perspective, then...
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David Brett
- Nov 27, 2021
- 3 min
How having a plan could be bad for your art
"If you fail to prepare, you prepare to fail." It's a great phrase, isn't it, and one that says a lot about the need to be organised in...
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David Brett
- Mar 24, 2021
- 2 min
Painting of the month: Poetry And Motion
What it is Here's where I select one of my artworks and talk about it in a little more depth, with the aim of explaining why I'm...
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David Brett
- Dec 22, 2020
- 3 min
Why we don't like change... and how to change that
It is true in art and it is true in life. We humans can be funny things. We get stuck in our ways and become comfortable with them. Yes,...
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David Brett
- Oct 30, 2020
- 2 min
Art house creations, and why they won't appear at the cinema
Up to this point, my main career has been journalism and, for 27 years, I worked as a news sub-editor on the London Evening Standard. A...
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