A study by Artfinder, the UK’s biggest art marketplace, has revealed that Redhill is Britain’s number one art-buying town, with 3,198 artworks bought per 100,000 inhabitants.
Also in the top 10 were towns such as Motherwell, Kirkcaldy, Kilmarnock, Paisley, Rochester, Romford, Truro, LLandudno, and Tunbridge Wells, making them the UK’s most arty towns.
Redhill’s art-lovers buy more paintings than any other kind of art, with oil and acrylic paintings making up half (50%) of all pieces bought. Landscapes, sea and sky (30% of all purchases) is the preferred artwork subject, with people and portraits coming a close second (20% of all purchases).
When it comes to style, the people of Redhill’s top purchases are on both impressionistic (30% of all purchases) and abstract art (15% of all purchases). Interestingly, grey is the most popular artwork colour across the UK, including Redhill, where it is used on 41% of all pieces purchased.
Michal Szczesny, CEO at Artfinder comments: “It’s brilliant to see Redhill crowned as the art-buying capital 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.