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 What do art consultants do?

If you are thinking about starting an art collection or adding to an existing one,

whether it's for your home or office, then employing the services of an art consultant

can save you time, money and trouble. 

The process of finding the right kind of art for your home or office can be very

time consuming and it's easy to make expensive mistakes.

The experienced art consultant

can make the process easy, safe and simple.

A good art consultant will be able to listen to what you want and help

you to choose art that will give you years of pleasure.

The art consultants role is to help you through the selection process, Identify

suitable area to hang art in, negotiate a fair price with the artist or dealer, help you

stick within your budget, help choose a theme and to organise framing of the art

as well as hanging or installation.

Art Consultants for the Home Owner and Corporate Art Consultants for Offices.

Some art consultants specialize in art consultation only for private homes and individual

art collectors.

The corporate art consultant  however will usually focus on art for offices, businesses,

hotels, bars, hospitals and show homes.

There are other art consultants who do both and will take on any task to find art for clients.

Some art consultants will handle art only in a particular price bracket.

Some will deal with so called affordable art (art priced at under £3,000)

and other art consultants only deal with top end investment art.

The art consultant you choose should be knowledgeable about in general,

art history and current trends in the art world.

When you speak of a well known artist that you like, then the art consultant

should know who you mean. They should be conversant with the various schools

of art and how they developed. Most of all they should be able to find the art

you like within your budget.

The art consultant in action

Your first contact with an art consultant will usually be via a phone call or email.

The art consultant should ask you a number of questions to establish what you are

looking for and determine any long term strategy you may have for collecting art.

The art consultant may then arrange an appointment with you to discuss further

your requirements. Usually he will do a quick survey of the area for the art to go in

and take some digital photos of the rooms and walls. 

Your consultant will then show you the work of various artists on a laptop,

in catalogues or on the Internet to establish the kind of art that you would

like to collect or display in your offices.

The art consultant may also show a selection of work in real life based on

what you told him in your previous phone call or email communication.

You may find that he's already found some pieces of art that you like.

He may leave them with you to think about.

You may be able to finalise what you want on only one visit.

Or the art consultant will go away with your brief and find the art you need. 

Based on your brief the art consultant will suggest various artworks that

would be suitable for your project, home or offices.

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The digital photos that were taken by your consultant can be used for ArtSitu fotomontage.

You can see how it works at www.artsitu.net

 The art consultant should be able to show how the art will look on your walls before you buy

or even see it in real life.

 Artsitu is particularly useful if you are choosing art for a

home or office abroad abroad.

The art consultant should have a network of artists and galleries who will allow him

to borrow art on approval to show it to you. If you purchase a piece of art and

change your mind about it.

You should be able to return it to the art consultant within a reasonable period for a

refund or exchange.

Buying or Renting Art

The art consultants job is to advise you the various options for owning art.

There is a phenomenon in the art buying world that is called Art Paralysis.

Potential art collectors may not buy at all,

because they are confused and don't know what to buy. 

Justifiably so, especially in our present economic climate. 

So to rent art with an option to buy makes a lot of sense.

You can try before you buy and offset rental payments

against purchase of the artwork.

It's a win win arrangement.

Your art consultant should be able offer Art for Rent with an Option to Buy.

Art rental for offices is often chosen by companies who want to benefit from

the tax relief and other financial advantages of Office Art Rental.

Corporate Art Consultants will often recommend and arrange for art rental.

hire or leasing of art to companies rather than straight forward buying of art for offices. 

Another advantage of art rental is that the art can be rotated every few months for a fresh

new selection of art. The company has the benefit of being able to live with the

art for a period and if they choose to, buy the art at a discount for a permanent collection.

Home owners and individual collectors usually want to buy art but if art rental

with an option to buy sounds attractive to you, then ask your art consultants

if they can arrange it...they may not be we can.

The art consultant should be able to save you money, time and hassle.

The art consultant should make it as easy as possible for you to find. buy, rent

and enjoy art and the process of choosing it.

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