The Artists UK Krazy Summer Sale is finally drawing to a close with only a few days left.  It has been more succesful than ever this year with many of our old customers snapping up the bargains so if you haven’t had a look yet then it might be an idea before it goes ‘pop’ and disappears like a magic trick !  You’ll notice that Artists UK Krazy Summer Sale is hyperlinked so all you need do is click it to go straight there.  Happy hunting!

With all the vast panorama of art prints for sale on our ecommerce website at Artists UK it is surprising that one of our best sellers this Christmas so far has been MC Escher jigsaw puzzles .  Why anyone would want their MC Escher picture in lots of tiny bits rather than in one piece is a bit of a puzzle in itself.  It makes you wonder doesn’t it.  If we tore up all the Limited Edition prints and posters into small pieces before we sent them out would they sell better?  

THE LAUNCH OF PATRICK WOODROFFE’S NEW BOOK “BENIGN ICONS” IS TO TAKE PLACE IN DENMARK ON 14th JUNE 2008.

Claus Brusen Mikkelsen is checking all the pages of “BENIGN ICONS” before it comes out. Claus Brusen Mikkelsen is now the publisher. It shall be launched including a quite large exhibition of Patrick Woodroffe’s work at his new gallery “FANTASMUS” Groennegade 3, 9300 Saeby, Denmark on Saturday the 14.06.08.

Great news for our continental customers or anyone in the UK who wants to go to Denmark and have the chance to see the work of a living legend. Patrick Woodroffe’s art is not just brilliant, it is astounding! Apart from the sheer vibrancy and original creativity of it the technique (especially the incredibly intricate small details) is really something else. The top off to the awe inspired by seeing Patrick Woodroffe’s original work is when you find out that he is almost entirely self-taught - utterly awesome indeed!

To see Patrick Woodroffe art prints and posters click here.

Someone was asking us today about Elric prints by a particular artist and although we are fairly sure they are not available we thought we’d check the artist’s own website just to be sure we haven’t missed something. Bash in the URL and up comes this blank screen with a “download plug-in” message. Didn’t have time for all that messing about so I left it and wondered at the logic of presenting a new visitor to your website with the choice to download software or go away!

Hmmmm?

Any prizes for suggesting the answer we came up with?

The only member of the Artists UK team who may have thought that a Flash Intro (especially without an obvious ‘Skip’ option) is a really good idea was Mitzi … and since she is the cat and we can only interpret her reaction from the purring she makes when she gets stroked, we decided that that was as close to unanimous as unanimous ever gets. Plus we decided that Mitzi would be extremely pleased at the mouse in unanimous