Updated June11th 2009   ***** please note:- I am not much of a web page buff -

Welcome to Peterborough Art House Ltd

As yet I am unable to mend the problems with display of this page, please go to the Peterborough Arthouse :: Catalogue to find the links to other pages

open studios - I shall be opening my studio again this year

Sat and Sun July 4th - 5th 12 noon to 5pm Sat & Sunday July 18th - 19th noon to 5pm  and I look forward to getting lots of visitors. Please come along there will be an OPEN banner on the outside of the house  >>>>>>> PLEASE NOTE THIS IMAGE IS AN OLD ONE AND THE DATES DIFFER

I have posted two views of many of my paintings together at my small studio.  You are invited to visit me in my studio  but I need a bit of notice because it is a working studio and needs rearranging for visitors.               Appointments - 0790 550 6018 or email helen.mould@btinternet.com   The catalogue is updated regulary. You can bookmark us for easy reference. You can e-mail us if there is a style of art you would like to see more of in our catalogue or if you have any other comments.

Some are being exhibited in Peterborough

at THE CRESSET, in The North Walk Cafe as well as in the Botolph Green Medical Centre.

The coffee (and the cake) is particularly good in the North Walk Cafe and you can see my paintings in reality without any pressure. No one need even know you are there to look at them. Discounts in operation.The India woman with a plate of food (shown below) may have taken their place - as you will see when you go in for your coffe and cake.

 I am listing some of my art books for sale at last after promising to do it for quite a while. Please check out . books for sale

The photographs were taken a few months ago - see the sunshine, remember that?

Some of the paintings shown may now be sold but email me and I will give you an update. Prices are very reasonable.

China's hunger for exports and low wages have already targetted and undercut many industries. The art world is increasinly attracting negative attention now.

With the art market seen as a lucrative cash cow, China is expanding its art colleges, turning out hoards of artists each year willing to work in the assembly lines painting parts of a painting before it moves on the the next person. The artists working on the assembly line have responsibility for a small section, maybe leaves on a tree or a single colour to paint a few brush strokes of green or brown and go quickly along a line of identical paintings. The painting will then pass on to the next artist to paint the blue, another for the yellow and etc. The technique was shown on a television documentary more than 10 years ago when it began to be increasing copied from techniques used in pottery factories.

These painting can still be classed as hand painted originals and sold on the internet. Chinese factories are mainly targetting works that retail for anything up to £200, with painters working from postcards or images from the Internet. China's ability to turn what has long been an individual practice into a mass production industry will no doubt affect the art market - artists and galleries.

However, to be cheap, cheap materials are used, mass primed canvasses, very thin cheap paint. The production line may produce a reasonable replica of the image but the quality will hold no life, no depth. It will be no better than a mass produced print.

The artist creator works on a painting bringing it to the life she aims for until she has successfully trialed what works and does not for the message she wishes to portray. When the image is out there anyone can copy it but it is usually so much effort to copy it properly it is not a viable proposition. The difference with these cheap Chinese copies is they are not true copies. They are the next stage up from a print on canvas. The materials are poor the images are chosen to suit the mass production, they paint on top of a lightly printed guide. You can't trust them to do what you want them to do. You won't bring life to your setting because there is no life in them.

When you buy a painting off the internet you can not see its quality. ASK the artist or the gallery about the materials and techniques used.

The paintings I create use quality British materials and are individual. If you can't come to see the paintings in person I am happy to snip a little bit of the canvas off and send you a sample so that you can see the quality. I often stretch the canvasses myself or buy them from an English artisan in the Lake District.