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About us

About us

Our Aspiration

If only everyone could own an original artwork . . . . BUT

Sadly there can only ever be one Original Artwork and one owner, which is why they are often so very expensive.
Our Aspiration is to help as many people as possible to own original works of art but when this is not possible we can often provide the next best thing.

On this website and at various regional exhibitions you can view some fantastic artwork and when you fall in love with a piece, be able to afford to own it.

The sale of these Artworks will all help in some small way to maintain some of the most magnificient areas of the Nations 'Protected Landscapes' by generating a part of our annual donation towards their ongoing protection, maintenance and enhancement, for the benefit of all future generations, their health and mental wellbeing.

If we dont protect our natural and built environment future artists will not be able to paint it.

Please support us and the National Parks, Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty and our National Trails Including the National Coastal Path too.


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Our Solution

Headed up by artist, art collector and art dealer Steve Good and his team, all working closely with living Artists and Modern Technology Digital experts from around the world, we are always able to offer some top quality, limited edition prints to clients. Whenever possible these modern artworks are sold as framed, Artist signed, numbered, limited edition prints. We also encourage donations of artwork or at least for owners to use us to help sell their works on a commission basis.
 

As a result . . . We also search the world for Private Collections including top quality, collectible, signed, limited edition prints from yesteryear. Artworks that are often from classic famous artists who sadly are no longer with us, but who's signed and numbered prints still remain for you to enjoy once acquired by our global search team over time. 

 

Who is Steve Good - What is his background

My name is Steve Good. I was born in 1952. I have always loved to paint and create things, although I am a passionate collector of other peoples art too. Quite naturally, during the mid to late 1960’s, my teenage years, I was drawn to live the life of a “Hippy”. Spiritually, I connected well with the whole concept of “Flower Power” and “Peace”. I started my artistic studies with an Arts Foundation at Harrow College of Art – North West London. Following my training I was forced to go into retailing undertaking window dressing which, whilst neatly pigeon holed as being "Artistic", did nothing for me .

I stayed in and around the London suburbs working unhappily before getting married and moving to live as a "Water Gypsy" on a 40' canal narrow boat on the Grand Union Canal where I often enjoyed the company of specialist inland waterways artist Keith Prowse, a fellow former Art student at Harrow, who also owned a floating art gallery based on the Grand Union Canal in Little Venice, next door to Richard Branson's first ever offices, yet another low cost housing and office space solution, even in those days!!

After some happy years living and working in and around a canal side boatyard we moved to Marlow on Thames where we then settled near to “my beloved River Thames” prior to moving further upstream to Bampton in West Oxfordshire (The Home of TV Show and Film Downton Abbey) and where I now exhibit my work from time to time.   As luck would have it, over the years, I have been able to enjoy a growing following who appreciate my artwork, which without doubt is very varied, often 'off the wall'. It is also often hugely experimental, especially with the more recent advent of digital media, including 3D digital printing. Indeed right now I am collaborating closely with a good friend who is a digital printing expert from JETRIX.

Apart from boats, reflections, water and light, my major influences of course include the magnificent Claude Monet for his vision, Van Gough whose style I love to attempt to emulate from time to time. However, perhaps less well known at this time but nonetheless a huge name in modern day abstract art, is American artist Jeffery Kroll with whom it seems I have much in common

Back in Harrow, during my early formative years, we students were given total freedom of expression and we were allowed to develop our skills at an age before we were too restricted by convention. There was no uniform and there were students, many of them female, up to the age of 20 and you couldn’t tell the difference between the tutors and the students. We even had a common room where people would stomp around listening to jazz, and blues, the Beatles and the Stones too. Perhaps it was here, in this world of total freedom that I first evolved my favoured abstract style which has since been described as being able . . . "to achieve reflective worlds of extraordinarily bold colour, colours that spill themselves dynamically, dramatically and mysteriously into and out of our natural world, thereby transporting us across seas and skies, to infinite places of impossible mystery which any curious minded person is surely delighted to be capable of imagining" .  All of which sounds really great, and really 'Arty' I'm sure but that not what I have in mind when I work? - In truth, I just try to relax and if the spirit is upon me, let it flow from within, while I just have fun making new and often very messy images - I love finger painting by the way).

By way of some further form of explanation for my undisciplined behaviors . . . Teachers at Harrow College of Art of that time included (Sir) Peter Blake, who later designed the famous cover art for The Beatles’ Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band album, Ken Howard, the Royal Academy painter, and architect Sir Hugh Casson, who in the 1970s became president of the Royal Academy of Arts. Then there was the Cartoonist and comic illustrator Martin Newman. We all came together in wild rebellious yet creative groups of talent. This was also the era of David Hockney too, I was there from about 1966 to 1970 I think, although it was and remains a bit of a blur, what with the explosion of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, LSD and other substances, which will perhaps help you to understand my vividly colourful memories, especially of the girls all wearing those extra short mini skirts. Be in no doubt dear reader, every one of us was totally determined to disobey all of the rules and overturn convention at every possible opportunity.
What great rebellious fun it was

Today Steve Good is in his 6th year as the Volunteer Chairman of the Thames Path National Trail whilst as a Politician he is the Former Cabinet Member for the Environment based in West Oxfordshire. 

A WORD ABOUT DIGITOILS (TM)

Here at Original Artwork Sales we have recently Trade Marked the words DigitOils and OriginOils which we hope will soon become a globally recognised method of indicating a specific Genre of Modern Artwork for our future generations.
 

"We have entered a new era in art-making and viewing, one that might be post-Internet, or of the New Aesthetic, or something else yet to be named. The one thing we know for sure is that it’s very computer-driven. New media artists are making work that is uniquely of our time, often subverting a technology to open up new ways of viewing contemporary culture. Technology-savvy artists inhabit a unique space, creating work that is often as technically proficient as it is insightful"

Above: are the plagurised words of writer Willa Koerner https://www.complex.com/author/willa-koerner

 

About our friends at Bridge Street Fine Art

Use this link to connect to their website but do please return here too.

Bridge Street Fine Art of Burford, West Oxfordshire, has specialised in exhibiting, acquiring and selling fine original works of art for over forty years. In particular, Bridge Street Fine Art was active at the start of the re-evaluation of the modern movement in British Art during the early 1970's.

Their stock contains a wealth of paintings, drawings, watercolours, sculpture and master prints by artists from many countries but special attention is paid to those important British and European painters who were active as avant-garde artists of their time.

Bridge Street Fine Art prefers to present the unusual or works by half-forgotten artists rather than the more obvious examples by mainstream artists.
Their website is intended to show various items drawn from stock. Enquiries are welcomed for any Modern British items that might be held in our stock or by other dealers with whom they have a relationship. Customers presently on the mailing list receive notification of website updates and forthcoming events, as and when they occur.

If you have not yet found anything of interest but would like to make us aware of your requirements please take time to fill in the contact form. Alternatively you may email us.

We hope you enjoy their site and that you will continue to return to us both