Inflation or what!

Listening to an old album called 'Fresh Liver' (they came from Liverpool ... geddit?) from the early seventies by The Scaffold (famous for having Paul McCartney's brother Mike in the band under the name Mike McGear) I was struck by the sketch where the Elvis-like pop singer boasts that last year after tax he cleared £15,000. Now that really makes you realise how much things have changed in only some 30 years. It makes you wonder if a similar modern boast of half a million will only buy you a packet of peanuts in another 30 years :-)

No thanks, I'd like a new one!

Aren't spelling mistakes wonderful! I came across an article that talked about the need for a sworn translator, which is a translator who is authorised by a court of law to validate their own translations. In other words, they are specialised legal translators. Other translators can go into court to have their translations certified but only a sworn translator can validate their own work. Unfortunately though, this article had left the 's' off the beginning of the word leaving them with a worn translator who would presumably produce worn translations rather than new ones :-)

Introducing Abandon Art

Fantasy, Horror and Surreal Art at Abandon Art

Probably the first fantastic art gallery on the web - ever!

The famous Abandon Art Gallery of Fantastic Art was based upon the success of the original physical Abandon Art gallery owned by Steve Jackson (the original founder of Games Workshop and writer of many fantasy gaming books etc). Abandon Art was the world's first gallery exclusively devoted to Fantasy and Science Fiction art. The gallery opened its virtual doors in 1995 with The Visionaries; later, were unveiled two new wings: Terry Pratchett's Discworld and The Daniel Woods Collection and then the Wonderland Suite with its incredible 'Alice in Wonderland' paintings. Another addition at around this time was the beautiful Rivendell by Alan Lee inspired by the place of the same name in JRR Tolkien's books 'The Hobbit' and 'Lord of the Rings'. Alan Lee of course, went forward from his fame as an illustrator of Tolkien's works to being a major artistic consultant on Peter Jackson's three Lord of The Rings Tolkien films.

The supplying of Limited Edition prints etc to customers of the site has always been handled by Artists UK and in January 2004 Artists UK purchased Abandon Art. We aim to grow the site and display more great works by major artists as well as hopefully making some of the currently unavailable Limited Editions available again.

Boris Vallejo prints

We've just added some new Boris Vallejo prints at Artists UK. Just go to www.artistsuk.co.uk and click on the link for the Latest Updates where you'll find the section link for Boris Vallejo (as well as the other new additions of course). You might want to save this page to your favourites as most of the new prints, posters, books etc get a mention on here.

Artists UK now on Google !

Artists UK started out with www.artistsuk.net and this then became our information websiote for artists, art fans and publishers etc whilst the ecommerce moved to www.artistsuk.co.uk where we supply massees of prints, posters, tshirts, books etc to customers all over the world. . A few years back we also bought what was probably the first ever Fantasy Art Gallery on the web, www.abandonart.co.uk

Only Artists UK DotNet hosts a Blog and this is the main Blog for Artists UK but we intend to post some items here as well and add more depending on the interest in our Google Blog. Let us know what you think and what you'd like to see here. Both our sites have Contact Forms where you can email us and tell us you found us here.