As a community, it is important to support local artists because, without local support, the art they make would stop and the impact it could have made would disappear. If you support a local artist, you are in turn supporting all of our respective creative freedoms.
Once artists are able to express themselves creatively and freely, beautiful art is made that can be admired by the community and beyond. These art pieces not only reflect the artists’ ideas, but also their hidden messages behind each work of art.
Sources to find local artists
- Search Google for (insert your towns name) local artists
- Instagram will list artists nearby if you type in your local town
- Search Facebook. Artists will often promote themselves by creating a Facebook fan page. Here’s mine. https://www.facebook.com/wavepainting/?ref=settings
- Google my business lists local artists
- Yell lists local artists
- Local artist list some local artist in your area http://www.localartist.org.uk
- My Art Brief where you can commission an artist to paint a work for you with the dimensions and colours of your choice https://www.myartbrief.com/
- Visit local galleries. They usually promote local artists
- Look in your local paper. They will often feature local artists showing work in a nearby venue
- In Devon, where I am based, you have the devonartistnetwork an organisation specializing in local devon artists with an open studio event every September https://www.devonartistnetwork.co.uk/
