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I am quite serious! now, I am not talking about Sotherby’s or Van Gogh’s but if you can afford to spare between, say, £50 and £1000 you can pick up a piece of work by an up and coming artist at this weekend’s Affordable Art Fair  and you never know - some time in the future it could be worth a lot of money.

A bit skeptical? well, consider the master himself, Van Gogh. He sat around the market squares of Arles in France just sketching and painting people he saw sitting in cafes or just standing by. No-one took any notice of him as he was a known eccentric yet he never sold a painting. He simply gave them away, and sometimes, people did not want them! imagine if those folk were alive today and knew the value of the paintings that strange little man tried to fob off to them…

Okay, whilst the artists at this Fair will not being toting their art for free all the same there are bound to be some famous names of the future there. And it is not a bad idea to pick up a nice work and sit on it for a few years, many have and found that their few dollars/pounds was the best investment they ever made.

This weekend the Fair is at London Battersea Park, so if you can get there and want something interesting to put in the house take some spare cash and take advantage of the 120 Galleries that will be exhibiting all kinds of painting, sculptures and photography. If you cannot get to this event still keep this in mind and check out any art exhibitions that are within reach of you.

You never know, it just might make a handy investment some day.

Pictured above: ‘The Yellow House’ - Van Gogh 1888, Arles. Van Gogh Museum Amsterdam.

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