Class Art from the Heart Launches new business and website
December 2008
We are a new family business Class Art From The Heart our names are Donna and Jeff Phillips and we are father and daughter who have just started a new on-line shop to sell origonal artwork. We are based in Swansea, South Wales our website is called www.class-art-from-the-heart.co.uk which is live on the internet and started in December with the help of Sheran and Colin Grey form Business Sense in Llansamlet in Swansea. My father is a well established welsh community artist and writer with over thirty years of origonal artwork, he has worked in many places in the UK and Spain and on many projects over the years including The Prince's Trust, Swansea's Enviroment Centre, A Lifelong Fellowship Award from The Millenium Commision and Regional Schools over the past ten years.
We have always had the idea of the business, but since living in Barcelona myself in 2005 surrounded on a day to day basis by beautiful architecture and meeting a lot of good friends who are involved in art galleries and sport there, I came home to plan for the last two years the set up of an on-line shop to sell fine art prints from our origonal artwork, we have now set up the website with Business Sense in Llansamlet Swansea, who have helped us no end in networking and marketing opportunities in the region. We had our business launch and paintings exhibited in the Platinum Lounge at the Liberty Stadium on the 10th December just gone and we came to realise from feedback that we could do a lot of great work internationally.
Even though our main line will be the website, we are also going to branch out into sports promotional artwork and Welsh Heritage, my father has recently painted Farewell to Stradey Park in Llanelli as a 30in by 40in acrylic on canvas as a promotion, from the origonal we auctioned off a print which raised £110.00 for the Rhydaman Childrens Dancers, we plan to auction off the origonal also to raise funds for the Ray Gravell Memorial Trust. We are also planning on doing promotional art work on The Swans, The Ospreys and other regional sportsmen and women to portray them as iconic heroes in oils after much studied feedback from fans, as we would like to break into the ex pat market with welsh pieces of art which will have a very extensive range that we are going to build constantly.
We have an extensive range of oils and acrylic on canvas paintings on military, welsh heritage, sport, serene and a 20 piece collection with origonal watercolour illistrations taken from the Latin Verse Desiderata. We have had our paintings displayed upstairs in the No Sign Wine Bar on Beaujolais Day 20th November for promotion of the business. Our origonal artwork can be utilized through us for hire to corporate companies, schools, hotels and events and two of our 8ft paintings were recently loaned out to Phil Williams of Plan-It-Eco for one of the largest teacher and educational conferences in the country due to their educational and enviromental element in art.
Jeff my father is also a writer and illistrator, three books in total two are based on his educational project work over the last ten years with primary schools to teach children about the enviroment ' Toby Toucan ', based on rainforest concern and ' Denzil The Dragonfly ' a story designed to raise awareness of enviromental issues. these are currently with publishers with the idea of them going into the school curriculum.There is also a fully illistrated fantasy written book ' Return Home To Annwn ', a story about welsh, irish and norse mythology which is available on www.amazon.com , but has been re-written after much research this book is currently with Barclays Bank to be looked into as a seperate part of our business Class Written art From The Heart.
About The Artist
Jeff Swansea born and educated, Jeff Phillips aged 58 years is an accomplished portrait painter and an established illistrator. He is a professional artist with over 25 years experience and has built up an extensive portfolio of artwork with many new ideas in the pipeline. For many years Jeff ran his own gallery and art business from the Swansea City Centre. On many occasions Jeff has worked with Enviroment Centre Swansea and is now a member of S.E.E.F. On 23rd November 2001 Jeff recieved a life long fellowship for his Millenium award winning project " The Wheel Of Balance ". This work has been displayed at many regional schools and shows and has been exhibited extensively through the U.K. Jeff has also taken the " The Wheel ", to Spain where he delivered a series of talks which were interpreted to the students at Torrevieja Institute and at the local schools in the Alicante Province. Using the " The Wheel ", and his other paintings Jeff has developed exciting and thought provoking enviromental art work shops with such bodies as The Prince's Trust, BTCV and Mumbles Development Trust.
About Donna
Sales and Marketing Donna is aged 32, and has worked in sales for over 12 years living both Swansea, Barcelona and Tenerife with extensive knowledge in the business of sales and marketing. Being surrounded by art since she was young and drawing illistrations herself, her father's artwork has made her want to travel and discover more in the world of art, this progressing to her move to Barcelona in 2005. After much research into modern art through friends in Spain and Swansea decided to plan a family business for her father's art work to be sold as fine prints.
Both myself and my father Jeff are looking forward to setting up www.class-art-from-the-heart.co.uk and the exciting routes it will take us through art and business at home and abroad and would like to personally thank Business Sense for the future opportunities they have helped us with.
