Buckinghamshire Art Competition

New online gallery

Skills are excited to introduce the new online gallery shop as part of the website make over for 2018.  Now you won't have to worry about your favourite painting being purchased by another shopper and we are adding new pieces which have not yet been displayed in the High Street Gallery.  Now you can visit the shop anytime you like to view our latest collection.

Another wonderful painting finds a new home!

As soon as Stephen Hawkings original oil ‘Sheep on a September Morning’ was placed on our window easel, it immediately became the talk of Stony Stratford’s window shoppers.  After a very short space of time, and after many enquiries, a customer who owns a farm in Yardley became the proud owner. 

We have other Stephen Hawkings paintings on sale on our Primrose Gallery site for those of you who missed out.

Picture Perfect Relocation

Skills Sister Company Picture Perfect has expanded and is right now moving into a prestigious workshop and showrooms.  Customers will now have an interactive experience of Picture Perfects Fine Art Trade Guild team using the latest technology to produce budget, commended, conservation, and Museum grade framing results.  The customer can also relax with the free parking to make informed choices for memorabilia framing, picture and photo restoration, fine art printing, and other picture solution services.
Get Directions to visit Picture Perfects new Framing workshops and showrooms.

Artist of the Week - Ken Howard

 Low Water at Mousehole 1995 

Oil on board approx 11" x 14"

14" x 17" gold frame with slip mount

£3750

Ken Howard studied at Hornsey School of Art from 1949 to 1953. He then did his National Service with the Royal Marines before returning to study at the Royal College of Art from 1955 to 1958. He went on to win a British Council Scholarship to Florence from 1958 to 1959.

Howard’s first solo show was held at the Plymouth Art Centre in 1955. Subsequent exhibitions were held in 1966 and 1968 at the John Whibley Gallery. From then on he exhibited extensively, both nationally and internationally, particularly with the New Grafton Gallery from the early 1970s. He was given a retrospective in 1972 at the Plymouth City Art Gallery and in 1973 and 1979 was appointed by the Imperial War Museum as official artist in Northern Ireland. He also worked with the British Army in Germany, Cyprus, Oman, Hong Kong, Nepal, Norway, Canada, Belize and Brunei from 1973 to 1982.

Howard was elected a member of the New English Art Club in 1962, the Royal Institute of Oil Painters in 1966, the Royal Society of Painters in Watercolours in 1979, the Royal West of England Academy 1981, Honorary Member of the Royal Society of British Artists in 1988, Royal Academician in 1991 and President of the New English Art Club in 1998. Among his numerous awards are First Prize in the Lord Mayor’s Art Award in 1966, a Prize Winner in the John Moores Exhibition, Liverpool in 1978, first prize in the Hunting Group Awards and the Critics Prize at Sparkasse Karlsruhe in 1985. Ken Howard lives and works in London.

Skills have a Calorie Free Easter Egg for you

Golden Egg & Smartie by Ramond Campbell

Original oil on board
7.5 x 7.5 cm

Presented in a fancy warm silver/white gold frame and white slip
20 x 20 cm wall size

£220