Open Competition

With less than 24hrs untill the web launch of the latest image by the elusive artist Valerio. we are already being inundated with requests for sneak previews!!!

 Keep an eye on us from Monday the 11th of July.

All you have to do is write up a title and brief description of the latest work, and your version could be featured along side that of the artists during the scheduled exhibition of the work. Not only that but if yours is the suggestion that is used you will win an Original Painting by the artist framed and delivered to your door Free of charge.

As the waiting list for the latest works by Valerio has now gone up from 9 months to a year this is a very exclusive offer.

 All entries must be received prior to closing date  October 31st 2011 in order to be counted.

www.tiffanygallery.co.uk

Tom Mccracken has run the Tiffany Gallery now situated on Higher Market Street, East Looe, Cornwall. For the last 25 years, showcasing some of the finest examples of local artworks by both professional and amateur artists alike.

 Toms own romantic watercolours have a liquid texture that so well conveys the atmospheric light that the region is famous for the world over, and captures the vivid nature of dawn and dusk hues even in bad weather.

Originally working as a ceramic artist in the workshop of Royal Doulton, Tom moved to the Cornish coast and has sold thousands of original artworks to collectors the world over as well as assisting in the launch of some of the best talents in the region.

Featured Artists include; Tom Mccracken. John Silver. Valerio .Tony Tewfik. Rubin Hudd. Gina Farrell

'In Steadman cartoons( Live,Love and Die like an Artist ) Now Published as the Book of illustrations under the title '101Reasons to choose a vocation in the ceative industries '

watch out for the latest biographical cartoons of the adventures by valerio, different ones are spread out across the web, each one featuring its own 'Valerious' situation or showing day to day occurrences on the very edge of Valerioism.
 Done in a style similar to that of the famous Illustrator Ralph Steadman renowned artist known well for his work with the late Hunter S Thompson and his most prolific work 'Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas'.

 These cartoons show what it is to be an artist ...and sometimes how gruelling it can be just to be an artists accomplice on one of his unusual adventures, Always entertaining, ever harrowing often enlightening and with out fail very human.

Our Galleries are constantly being updated so keep looking for our latest uplaods at www.artbyvalerio.com
and make sure you look out for us on facebook and twitter just look for artbyvalerio. for info on open studios exhibitions and competitions.

Prize Givaway! Consider This! Connotate That!!!

Calling all budding young writers,or if you've ever fancied yourself as an art critic. 

Well heres your chance, all you have to do is send us a few paragraphs describing the latest artwork by Valerio, and you could be in with a chance to not only have your write up accompany the piece in its up-coming exhibition but you yourself could also win an Original Painting! by the artist Framed and Delivered to your door.

The image wont be posted untill the 11th of june 2011 so watch this space and get your thinking caps on.

Remember we will be looking for a full title and description and it will be listed in the information that accompanies that image during exhibitions and on line next to the artists own interpretations and title.

So get writing and let us know what you think, 

image will be posted on the 11th july 2011 and will be displayed untill 31st october 2011 winners will be announced on december 24th 2011

Support the invest in real art campaign

to coincide with us launching our Interior Design services and our new picture framing services we are to remind all of our customers that we will under no circumstances be reframing any whistlefish prints that are brought to us and we will discourage such behaviour as it tends to upset our artists.
 you bought the cheap factory print in its horrible plastic frame so you live with it!!!!

 As we will continue to be running our invest in real art campaign from all of our premises to encourage the public to once again invest in thier local talent by getting out there and if possible meeting the artists your investing in , in stead of buying something from an individual whom knows nothing about the subject.

Limiting The Supply.

Too many artists these days feel the need to sell print after print in order to cash in on the popularity of a single image and ultimately reducing the amount of time that is dedicated to the production of the real work.
 At Art By Valerio we ensure the exclusive nature of our very unique product by limiting any prints made from an original image to a series of 50 all of which come bearing the artists signature on both the print surface and again on the surrounding display mount. Each print is issued a catalogue number to enable cross referencing at any time  and each print also comes with a A5 connotation card ( These are hand written notes by the artist concerning the work and are a similar version as the ones that accompany all Originals. All Signed and Dated.)
 The nature of these works takes the artist a great deal of time in preparation and production each piece commanding several weeks for completion. The disposition that can occur from the gruelling efforts to produce these renderings have made them quite sought after pieces in thier own right , even more so since the artist has decreed that any pieces that have not sold within his lifetime and are left in his personal collection including all works in progress and sketchbooks will be DESTROYED!!!

Having worked with contemporaries such as Sue Lord, Robert Lenkiewicz, Gina Farrell, Howard Brown , Tom Mccracken, Rubin Hudd and Tony Tewfik, his accomplishments look only to continue evoking and inspiring.

Where to find us

        Art by Valerio available @ www.artsbyvalerio.webs.com check us out on face book and twitter
Ginas Gallery,
 The Quayside,
Polperro.
Cornwall

Tiffany Gallery,
Higher Market Street,
East Looe,
Cornwall

Maker Heights
Millbrook
Cornwall

Artby Valerio
Roborough,
Plymouth.
Devon

Pop UP Local
Dartmouth
Devon

Harlech Confwy
Porthmaddog
Wales

Weesperzijde
Amsterdam
Netherlands

Piazza di St Marco
Venezia
Italy

Miami USA
Dallas USA
San Francisco USA according to exhibition rotation x

Full Range of Framing Options Now Available

When you buy your Original Artwork by Valerio, or your Limited Edition Handsigned Print you can now choose how best to match it with your interior theme by making use of our full framing service allowing you to choose the mountings and mouldings that will seamlessly match the colours of your home.
  We are now also able to offer some very selective furniture lines in conjunction with our Interior Design offices to enable a full range of domestic, commercial and corporate design solutions.
   for Information regarding any of these services please dont hesitate to contact us where one of our skilled staff will be happy to talk through your bespoke requirements.

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The foundation to all civilisation!

They say that an image can convey a thousand words, if this is indeed true then it supersedes the need for a written language or so one might be inclined to believe.
  From the dawn of man civilisations have captured wishes and experience through the mediums of the arts from cave paintings to present day graffiti the overwhelming desire that mankind has always had to create. This of course has a Yin and Yang parody for as well as we are able to create so adept are we, indeed endowed with an ability to destroy,but to create order in an engulfing chaos , to catalogue, identify and to explain so that we might be able to improve our influence against the seeming disorder to be able to create a more autonomous equilibrium in which to live and be able to carry out our day to day lives.
  when we go back to what we unwittingly describe as the basic level; Neolithic Man for example, tribal society has its own hierarchy of belief and ritual each person within the community acts according to the role imposed upon them in accordance with that hierarchy, at the end of daylight hours when it is no longer viable to track or hunt or engage many of the activities that tribal societies conduct during the hours of high visibility.
 We are to presume that the individual who having completed the daily tasks remained alert and determined enough to follow through with the compulsion beyond that of his company, to sit by fire light and to whittle or to paint or draw to make something that was a reflection of something that he or she felt.
 When our earliest ancestors were first seeking shelter from the elements in the pre dawn of human habitation.To prevent themselves sitting in the mud they went and got a stone or log to sit on, over time others began to do the same, the first of our ancestors to encourage this began to sit on there makeshift seat come rain or shine ...and began to work the wood/stone, so that over time it displayed pictorial carvings of fanciful things.
  The dawn of trade, industry,and literate humans?