Artists UK coupon code JAN20

Just for once we are posting the latest coupon code on our blog rather than just issuing it to existing customers. During all of this January you’ll be able to use this Artists UK coupon code at ARTISTS UK and see the discounts drop off pretty much anything you put in the cart – prints, posters, t-shirts, books etc.  Discounts also come off our already competitively priced add-on services like framing and gift-wrap. Just put the JAN20 coupon code in the coupon code box on the site or in the cart and see the discounts pile up as you add items. Happy Shopping!

20th Anniversary explosion!

“OMG it’s just like Christmas!” groaned one of our packers as the 20th anniversary sale got into full swing and even some old customers we haven’t heard from for some time turned up to grab some of the rare items that we, in our usual fit of madness, included in the sale.  We also managed to list one item based on an old retail price giving the customer rather more off than had been planned so he got a really good bargain, not that he knows it unless he compared the retail price on his order confirmation with the current section for that artist.

Anyway, it was fun to celebrate the 20th Birthday of Artists UK and I expect the next twenty years will pass just as rapidly and as long as there are walls to hang pictures on, bodies to wear t-shirts, art books to read … you get the idea … we’ll be here, even if those walls are on spaceships, Mars or in some far-flung galaxy … Artists Andromeda, now there’s an idea ….. :-)

Artists UK or AUK ?

On some of our internal documentation Artists UK has sometimes abbreviated Artists UK to AUK but we are having some second thoughts about this since learning that the Great Auk was a large, flightless alcid that became extinct in the mid-19th century!

It lived in the North Atlantic, and bred on rocky, isolated islands with easy access to both the ocean and a plentiful food supply, a rarity in nature that provided only a few breeding sites for it. The Great Auk was 75 to 85 centimetres (30 to 33 in) tall and weighed around 5 kilograms (11 lb), making it the largest alcid. It had a black back and a white belly. The black beak was heavy and hooked with grooves on its surface. During summer, the Great Auk had a white patch over each eye. During winter, the auk lost this patch, instead developing a white band stretching between the eyes. The auk was a powerful swimmer, a trait that it used in hunting. Humans had hunted the Great Auk for more than 100,000 years, and by the 19th century, its growing rarity increased interest from European museums and private collectors in obtaining skins and eggs of the bird. The last two confirmed specimens were killed off the coast of Iceland on July 3, 1844.  Hopefully, the Great Artists UK will survive rather longer than the poor Great Auk.  More about the Great Auk here.

The Krazy Summer Sale takes off with a bang!

Well, all our customers who are on our updates mailing list were notified last weekend of the start of our Summer Sale and this has caused a bit of a “feeding frenzy” despite the hot weather, or maybe it is just too hot to go outside for fear of melting :-)

One or two items have already sold out in the Summer Sale but there are still many more fabulous bargains on popular items available so if you haven’t already had a look the direct link to the Artists UK Summer Sale is here.

If it gets any hotter we’ll have to start wrapping everything in asbestos :-)

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