The Cost of Art

There’s a question I often hear people ask: why does original art cost what it does? In many ways it’s a fair question and I remember a time when I used to ask it too. It’s only when you have spent time on the other side of the easel that you realise that much of what goes into creating and bringing a painting to life remains invisible.

Put together the visible and the invisible, though, and you start to understand what you are really paying for.