Nigel Greaves Gallery — Attraction in Eastbourne

Can you feel love for an inanimate object? Well I now do! After searching through many art shops and galleries looking for pieces of art for our recently decorated hallway and not finding anything that said to me “buy me” we decided to return to Nigel's gallery in Eastbourne.We had bought three pieces of art from Nigel a few years ago, all with a seaside theme. I still love these paintings and impulsively decided on Sunday morning to make the drive from Chislehurst to Eastbourne just to see what Nigel now had in his gallery. When I arrived, I found myself confused as I had not expected to buy an abstract piece of artwork, but I was constantly drawn to one painting and then another. I bought two paintings, and am so happy with what I bought. I hadn’t realised the impact these paintings would have once removed from the others and hung in my hallway. To say we are delighted with them is an understatement! They bring life to the hallway, and everyone seeing them for the first time say Wow! Thanks Nigel, you are a very...

I don't like to give a bad review but the problem is these "artworks" that Nigel produces are in in my opinion what I would term "furnishing pictures, and nothing more. It's like this man is a, "jack of all trades", a simple seascape, landscape, abstract or figurative work. There is no real meaning in anything. Yes, they might look good on your wall and fit in with your new sofa or match your brightly tailoured curtains, or they might suit an office environment, but this is not art, merely decorative work. An artist needs to be inspired by something more than transient meaningless materialism. I would suggest, for example, that he study the work of Austin Osman Spare, Sidney Sime, Ljubomir Popovic, or artists that work in other mediums such as Dale Chihuly. I hope what I have said above is not seen so much a a bad review, but as an encouragement to Nigel to do something more, something organic, true...

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In every art gallery you can find a treasure ,but in the angel Greaves art gallery the treasure the art is him, my family andi we're wowed with his art but when he came down to speak to us we were gobsmacked a master class in art and wisdom assailed us,I needed to record his gems ours wisdom and encouragement and it wasn't a show ,a master teacher and artist, I needed a chair. In the gallery is a quote 

"Art makes makes more sense of you've met the person who created it."

I'll never see art the same way again, he opened my not to just his art but art in general it was like having new eyes. Whatever state your in go see him, go see his art I guarantee you if he explains just one picture to you , you'll come out happy and changed and definitely wowed like my family 5 stars...