The affordable art lesson

Ever feel like your room is lacking something? Walls looking a bit bare? Perhaps you need a hero piece – or even pieces – of art. ‘Art can completely transform a home,’ says Will Ramsay, founder of the Affordable Art Fair (affordableartfair.com), ‘whether it’s a bold statement piece that lights up a room or a gallery wall of curiosities.’ But if you’ve shied away from art in the past, thinking it out of budget, panic not – there are lots of ways to make art a part of your home without blowing all your cash, and places to discover it, too.

The Affordable Art Fair was born in 1999, out of a wish to make art accessible to all. ‘I