What’s on your walls at home?
Posted: Fri 08 Aug, 2025 3:40 pm
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!
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!
, apart from John aka JKX.
