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A fairly small abstract painting using oil pastel, paint, pva and glass beads. I painted this one in the studio at Commercial Road. It is the first of an ongoing series that I've continued working on at the new studio in Mile End, using these glass beads that people put in glass vessels for display purposes. I think they are wonderful and they have been central to the recent abstract paintings. I've done maybe 10 of these now. I'll get pics of them on-line as soon as I can. This painting is for sale - please email me if you are interested or you can pay directly if you have a PAYPAL account using a credit or debit card.

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PONDLIFE
57 x 46 cms / 22.5" x 18".
Acrylic paint, oil pastel, glass beads and pva on canvas. 2005. London.

This original painting by respected web artist
JUSTIN BAILEY is for sale and costs €300.
The price includes safe packaging
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This is the first painting I have had for sale on-line and I hope it will be the one of many. This has been a long term project and dream to get the website financially viable. If I going to support myself as an artist I needed to get my work out there and seen (of which stage one was getting the website going), and stage two, which is having the facility to be able to become an on-line merchant. Selling over the internet means that basically the middleperson (the gallery owner or the agent) doesn't get a share in the transaction so is cut out from the sale. This means that you do not have to pay extra for their otherwise share. Therefore you pay less than you would if you saw it in a gallery. Of course, looking at the painting virtually, digitally, means you can't see it in real life, but hey, it means you can view a version of the painting if you live in Asia or Alaska or even in the Amazon, such is the miracle of the internet. You, the potential buyer and possible soon to be owner of one of my paintings, benefit from this disadvantage of not viewing the painting in a gallery, for I have to sell it at a lesser price because of that. Exhibiting in galleries have the associated costs of rent, salaries, percentage and taxes. A virtual gallery or exhibition has none of those costs.

Initially, I will be pricing the work at silly low, low prices as a way of generating sales and to see how this selling on-line thing goes. So the first few works will be priced at introductory special offer deals. So now is the ideal time to buy one of my paintings while they are ridiculously cheap. Rest assured, not only will you be buying an original artwork, something of beauty, but that also its financial value will accrue.