More December dates released!!

Celebrate Christmas with The Art of Good Taste
Share a glass of mulled wine and a mince pie with us.
Make your Christmas shopping painless!
We are open EVERY Day the week of December 13th
And any day by appointment!

At: 28, rue Alfred de Musset, Limpertsberg

On Monday 13th December 2010 open from 11am to 4pm
On Tuesday 14th December 2010 open from 11am to 4pm
On Wednesday 15th December 2010 open from 11am to 4pm
On Thursday 16th December 2010 open from 4pm to 9pm
On Friday 17th December 2010 open from 4pm to 9pm

Gallery News!

Discover our NEW Autumn/Winter collection and start
your Christmas shopping NOW by enjoying

a glass of champagne with us

At: 28, rue Alfred de Musset, Limpertsberg

On Saturday 13^th November 2010 open from 11am to 3pm

On Tuesday 23^rd November 2010 open from 4pm to 8pm

On Thursday 2^nd December 2010 open from 10am to 5pm

On Friday 3^rd December 2010 open from 10am to 5pm

The Art of Good Taste gives creative people the opportunity to exhibit the fruits of their labours in a central location. We offer oil paintings, watercolours, glass sculptures, ceramics, jewellery, personal accessories, greeting cards and many other gift ideas. This is a unique opportunity in Luxembourg to acquire distinctive handmade treasures for you, your family, friends, employees and clients.

Gallery News!

Discover our NEW Autumn collection and enjoy a

glass of champagne with us

At: 28, rue Alfred de Musset, Limpertsberg

On Tuesday 5^th October 2010 open from 4pm to 9pm

AND

On Friday 15^th October 2010 open from 4pm to 9pm

The Art of Good Taste gives creative people the opportunity to exhibit the fruits of their labours in a central location. We offer oil paintings, watercolours, glass sculptures, ceramics, jewellery, personal accessories, greeting cards and many other gift ideas. This is a unique opportunity in Luxembourg to acquire distinctive handmade treasures for you, your family, friends, employees and clients.

Acquire something original and support the artists:

Janice Allgrove, Pierre Bayonnove, Indira Mehic, Carlo Arend, Jeni Fitch, Angela Milne, Jane Barclay, Matthew Kahn, Colette Roderes, Timmy Bartocci, Billie Jean Little, Diana Shippey, Mea Bateman, Francoise May, Sam Shippey

Featured Artist - Matthew Kahn

I was raised near New York, the child and grandchild of artists. Naturally, I rebelled against this and fled to Silicon Valley in the San Francisco area where I joined the Information Technology evolution. I helped bring the first desktops to the masses, created computer prototypes for the next generation of Windows-based machines and always built-in functionalities to use this new thing to achieve the ancient goal of all artists:
Create something new to understand the world and our place in it

Nonetheless, I became disenchanted with that objectified method of impacting people and chose to participate in a more human-centric one – improving people’s lives by teaching them. I became a teacher of English as a foreign language and moved to Japan. In the Orient, I learned to dream outside the machine using delicate inks and rice paper in ways never done in the East to create the dreamscapes which show us a vision.
Picasso: “Art is the lie which shows us the truth”

From there I came to Europe, a Continent just reaching out to itself and healing the scars left by the arbitrary imposition of the Iron Curtain. This reclamation and re-building of our mutual patrimony inspired the artistic movement of Renovationism – claiming building materials as art supplies to depict our new reality free from both brutal authoritarianism on one hand and suffocating consumerism on the other. This shows the way out of a joined cultural life otherwise trapped between two overlapping and soul-destroying commandments.
Josef Stalin: “Everything not compulsory is forbidden”
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John P. Morgan: “Everything not forbidden is compulsory”

My art, like me, is rooted in broad perspectives, local expression and human nature. East and West are shown by styles each combining elements from both in new ways within the context of the common human point of view. I hope you enjoy looking at them as much I enjoyed creating them. Just remember:
Contagious consciousness is the essence of communication

Friday 28th May 2010

The Art of Good Taste is open on Friday 28th May from 4pm to 8pm. Please bring a friend and join us for a glass of champagne and a chat and enjoy the ambience of our welcoming studio which is the current home of 16 artists whose work covers a variety of artefacts from Paintings in oil, acrylic, watercolour and mixed media to ceramics, handmade jewellery, sculptures, glass and other items. The artists’ styles are very individual which has produced not only a wide variety but also different and unique pieces that keep you wanting more. You can purchase your own piece of art for €5 or €2,500 and anything in between, so there is something to suit every pocket.

I will be organising a meal in a nearby restaurant afterwards:

For more information and meal reservations please contact:

jallgrove@theartofgoodtaste.lu
(+352) 621 181 767

28, rue Alfred de Musset L-2175 Limpertsberg, Luxembourg

Featured Artist - Jane Barclay

An artist born in Essex, England, I attained my degree in Constructed Textiles at Middlesex University, London.

(set 2 of freestanding pieces)

(two of set 2 freestanding pieces)

Over the years I have exhibited my work in London, Paris, Holland and Luxembourg in galleries and on catwalks.

(piece 1 set II)

(two of set II)

I have also taught at Middlesex University and various art and textile courses at Loughton and Harlow Colleges in Essex before leaving the UK in 1997 to come to Luxembourg.

(Seascape triptick)

(Seascape I)

Returning to my artwork after bringing up my family, my paintings often reflect my interest in textiles and my love of colour and texture.

(Painting 1)

(Painting 2)

I have since produced a range of paintings of local Luxembourg scenes and have more recently moved into developing a mixed media rusting technique using 24 karat gold leaf to produce a collection of abstract work.

(broadsworld II)

Hello and welcome!

Just a quick hello and welcome! As well as our website which will be up and running in the next few weeks, we will be updating our Blog to advise of special events, to give you a glimpse of works in progress, and to bring you in-depth profiles on featured artists.

To commence its' launch, The Art of Good Taste will be hosting a series of evenings during April 2010, where invited guests are able to meet and view the work of 15 talented artists.

The dates are

• Tuesday, 20th April
• Friday, 23rd April
• Tuesday, 27th April
• Friday, 30th April

For further information, email: info@theartofgoodtaste.lu

Thank you for stopping by!