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Moving hosting can be quite a nightmare especially with an art business and masses of images of all our prints and posters not to mention the software behind it all but finally it has all been done and the new slideshow in the sidebar is a fabulous improvement on the static ads we had there before. We hope you like it and if you do, or if you don’t, click the comments and tell us so.

The annual Wadfest auction

As has been the case for the last ten years or so Artists UK donated products to the Wadfest festival this year for their annual charity auction.  The Wadfest weekend went well and there was even good weather on the Saturday.  The Wadfest auction raised £1,070 for Cancer and Animal Rescue charities, of which the Artists UK donation accounted for £264.

RIP Sir Terry

A very sad day today as Terry finally meets his old friend DEATH and wanders off for a final chat with him.  Like many people I have read everything he ever wrote and have been reading Discworld novels since they started.

I was wondering what other Discworld characters might say about it.  I was thinking Granny Weatherwax might say, “He aten’t dead!” and Rincewind would undoubtedly ask what he had been running from and more importantly where it went to afterwards.  Commander Vimes would probably order him back to life with a threat that he’d not live to regret it if he didn’t do it.

Have you any other ideas of what other characters might say?

8th Anniversary Tiki Special
49 April/May 2015

Release date 18th March 2015

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Phew! That was close!

When I started Artists UK over 20 years ago I was aware that the fortunes of various art and artists might wax and wane over time but I always thought the UK would remain intact so it was quite a shock to see the possibility of Scotland going independent. After all, Artists IWANI doesn’t quite have the same appeal or brevity does it? You did work that out, didn’t you – England, Wales And Northern Ireland. So I’d like to say a really big thank you to all those lovely Scottish folks who voted to stay in the UK and stopped us from being renamed Artists IWANI. I’d come and give each one of you a hug if it wasn’t going to take so long to get round you all and I’m not much good at running up and down highland hills nowadays. But leave a funny comment and you might just get a very nice discount coupon back by email …