As a Scottish landscape artist I have delivered finished paintings to houses full of bustle, dogs barking and children running around. When I return years later, the painting is usually still in the same spot, woven into daily life. That is when you realise that original art has a different rhythm to everything else in a home. It stays, it witnesses, and eventually it is passed on. Paintings that began life as scenes of mountains, lochs or coastlines end up woven into the li

People often assume you need deep knowledge (or a big wallet) to start an art collection. But the truth is much simpler and much more joyful: your art collection begins the moment you choose one piece you genuinely love.