Welcome to the new Collection of
8 silkscreen images by Jack Vettrianofrom
Silk & Seduction.
Silk and Seduction has been appointed as the sole supplier of these new images
by Portland Gallery, which exclusively represents Jack Vettriano.
Silk and Seduction specialise in the promotion and sale of Limited Edition
Silkscreen images by Jack Vettriano .
We enjoy this privileged arrangement as a result of our long personal relationship
with the Portland Gallery and Jack Vettriano . We are enthusiastic and passionate
supporters of Jack Vettrianoand his art and are ourselves Collectors of Jack Vettriano's original paintings and limited edition images.
Born in Scotland in 1951, Vettriano left school at sixteen to become a mining
engineer in the local coalfields. For his twenty-first birthday a girlfriend
gave him a set of watercolour paints and, from then on, he spent much of his
spare time teaching himself to paint. The local, Kirkcaldy Museum and Art Gallery,
with its renowned collection of 19th and 20th century Scottish paintings, was
inspirational.
It was fourteen years before Vettriano felt ready to show any of his work
in public. In 1989 he offered two works to the Royal Scottish Academy’s
annual exhibition; both were accepted and sold on the first day. The following
year, an equally enthusiastic reaction greeted the three paintings, which he
entered for the prestigious Summer Exhibition at London’s Royal Academy.
Born in 1951, Jack Vettrianohas emerged from the unlikely background of an
early working life in the Scottish coal-fields to become Britain’s best
known contemporary artist; he is entirely self taught. He has only been painting
full time since 1988 after his work first came to public prominence at the
Royal Scottish Academy open exhibition. Since then there have been sell out
exhibitions in Edinburgh, London, Hong Kong, Johannesburg and New York.
In less than fifteen years, the average price of his paintings has risen from
a few hundred to tens of thousands of pounds. The demand for Vettriano’s
work is reflected in the successive record breaking prices that his paintings
have achieved at auction in the last few years, most notably with the of The
Singing Butler, the artist’s most iconic image, which sold for £740,000
at Sotheby’s in April 2004.
Aside from his exhibitions, Vettriano has acquired a vast following through
the licensing and distribution of his images. To date, more than 3 million
posters and cards featuring Vettriano’s paintings have sold worldwide.
In June 2003, Vettriano received an OBE for Services to the Visual Arts, despite
being a controversial figure within the art establishment – the only
example of his work to be feautred in a public collection is a painting donated
by a collector to the Kirkcaldy Museum & Art Gallery in Fife. To his critics,
his work is at best nostalgic pastiche and at worst misogynistic soft porn;
the latter description triggers an interesting debate in that the greater majority
of his fans are women. The critics’ disdain of his work has been matched
by Vettriano’s scorn but his popularity and earning power are undeniable.
He is an artist whose work is adored and reviled in equally extreme measures.
There was increased media interest in Jack Vettrianoin 2004, highlights being
a South Bank Show documentary entitled The People’s Painter followed
by guest appearances on Breakfast with Frost and Desert Island Discs. In April
2004, Vettriano’s most famous painting The Singing Butler was sold at
Sotheby’s by a private client and it fetched in excess of £700,000,
a record breaking price for a painting by a Scottish artist.
Vettriano’s most recent exhibition, Affairs Of The Heart, was at Portland
Gallery in July 2004 (details below) and there are plans for a major exhibition
of paintings and new limited edition prints in the spring of 2006.
All Jack VettrianoPrints and Posters
Along Came A Spider
Table For One
The Game Of Life
The Parlour Of Temptation
Altar Of Memory
Models In The Studio
Drifters
Words Of Wisdom
