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web site Kirsteen.Art see my art today!

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I have launched a new website to view, like, share and buy my art! See it here: https://www.kirsteen.art Original artwork by Kirsteen Lyons-Benson (BA Hons) Mixed media on paper. Kirsteen Lyons is the child of two artists who met at Glasgow art school in the sixties, got married, and fled the city to a remote Scottish island, to live on a beach, in a tent, with two kittens and a chest of drawers. Growing up in a craft pottery, and later a cottage in the woods, Kirsteen planned to rebel, and have central heating and breakdown cover when she grew up! Grow up she did, and studied textile design, not fine art (more rebellion). She did very well at university winning two prestigious competitions and getting a job with Muraspec (a wallpaper manufacturer) straight out of uni, it was new product development, so she went from there to other innovation companies, and tried all sorts of middle class ideas out, including paying a mortgage, and working in PR, but soon found her paren...

Art Dreams Gallery

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Hello!! I'm launching an art gallery!!! Want to own something that is not from a sweatshop? New art gallery opening. Art Dreams Gallery.  fb.me/ artdreamsgallery Eco-friendly, handmade, authentic and local. It today's economy small business and artisans are not getting the opportunities they should, but a team of four artists are finding a way around that, with the launch of the family business, Art Dreams Gallery. “My parents were craft potters making mugs by hand and selling them to the public and other small business for fair prices, they were successful and even had ceramics in Harrods, but forty years later such business cannot compete with cheap overseas imports, most of those small potteries went bust years ago, but there is a growing backlash against this disposable, fast-moving economy, people are looking for something handmade and looking for greener businesses.” Kirsteen Lyons, Artist Artists, Gill Bustamante, Andrew Hodgson, Kitty Atkinson-Guy...