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 are Portland Gallery's only appointed supplier of the new Collection of 8 limited edition silkscreen images in the UK and overseas (with the exception of South Africa).
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
