A study by Artfinder, the UK’s biggest art marketplace, has revealed that Llandudno has ranked as one of the top 10 art-buying town capitals in the UK, with 756 artworks bought per 100,000 inhabitants.
Also in the top 10 were towns such as Redhill, crowned as the art-buying capital, Motherwell, Kirkcaldy, Kilmarnock, Paisley, Rochester, Romford, Truro, and Tunbridge Wells, making them the UK’s most arty towns.
Llandudno’s art-lovers buy more paintings than any other kind of art, with oil and acrylic paintings making up 39% of all pieces bought. Landscapes, sea and sky (23% of all purchases) is the preferred artwork subject, with animals and birds coming a close second (20% of all purchases).
When it comes to style, the people of Llandudno’s top purchases are on both impressionistic (28% of all purchases) and illustrative art (15% of all purchases). Interestingly, grey is the most popular artwork colour across the UK, including Truro, where it is used on 42% of all pieces purchased.
Michal Szczesny, CEO at Artfinder comments: “It’s brilliant to see Llandudno in the top ten towns list for art-buying capitals of the UK. 2020 saw a real boom for the online art market, with overall online art sales worldwide doubling to a record high of $12.4 billion in 2020, accounting for an all-time high of 25% of the art market’s overall value, up from just 9% in 2019. Our study shows that the whole of the UK is buying original art for their homes and here at Artfinder, we couldn’t be happier to provide the nation’s art-lovers with unique pieces created by independent artists.”
Artfinder sells original art from 6,000 artists in 96 countries, making it the world’s largest marketplace for art.
