Top Art For 35 Quid

Trust your eye and, for £35, you could become the owner of an original art work, by a famous artist, worth thousands of pounds. The Royal College of Art’s Secret Postcard Sale and Exhibition, returns for its 13th year next month with 2,500 miniature paintings and drawings on show. Famous artists and RCA students who might be the stars of tomorrow have created the art postcards. Peter Blake, Emin, Chris Ofili, as well as Henry Moore and Barbara Hepworth, are all graduates of the RCA. Such is the draw of this selling exhibition, that visitors brave cold and rain, camping outside the building in South Kensington in tents, sleeping-bags and thermals. Last year one man endured a record two weeks on the pavement. Although some of the featured artists command huge prices on the open market RCA buyers are not buying for investment, it seems. The RCA has yet to hear of anyone selling a purchase. The regulars come back year after year and say that they have no intention of parting with anything. The secret of the show’s success is that people can go home with original works by well-known artists with little financial risk. For the full story - click the title Irish Art