What you get when purchasing art at the Mr. Upside gallery

One beautiful painting (‘Soft Skin’) ready for delivery at the clients home, in Voorburg, the Netherlands! The painting, together with a signed Certificate of Authenticity, an invoice, two wooden flyers, business cards and a handwritten personal note on a @moo Deluxe Postcard makes a nice set of 'goodies'.

I always tend to forget how much time, effort and care goes into delivering a painting, :)

But I also remember ordering something at a small Dutch webshop to find a personal, handwritten note added to the box. Someone who I looked up to, had taken the time to write a really personal note. So cool!

Since then I try to incorporate at least a small note, written on Moo Deluxe Postcards, to make the sale even more personal. Giving feels good.

More info on the painting and the sale in this blogpost on the sale in the Mr. Upside Gallery in Voorburg.

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Painting 'Soft Skin' sold

This nice couple came by the Mr. Upside gallery yesterday and decided to become the new owners of this beautiful, relatively new 100x150cm painting. It's a birthday present for the lady on the picture.

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Photoshoot Mr. Upside and collaboration with local discount card De Hofpas

De Hofpas is a much more than just a discount card. It's an initiative by two Dutch companies, care center Florence and cooperation De Volharding and it offers discounts and benefits of local businesses in the Dutch The Hague region. It is a non-profit organisation. The card is distributed among 50.000 people.

Free of charge

One of our employees advised Janette and me to register an account at the Hofpas website. It is free of charge for the first year and offers nice possibilities for promoting our products.

Photoshoot

Part of the service offered by De Hofpas was a photoshoot by photographer Renske Derkx, taking place at the Mr. Upside gallery and the leather bags studio of Janette.

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We had a fun morning and some nice pictures where taken of both our businesses. Below you'll find a selection of those pictures* showing Mr. Upside art products.

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Artwork 'Don't talk. Listen' has found a new home. Within a week!

On March 12 I finished this piece ‘Don’t talk. Listen.’ and wrote about it in this blogpost. It’s called ‘Don’t talk. Listen’ because I find it sad to see so many people talking about themselves without ever asking their conversational partner anything.

Turning a negative into something positive

Without wanting to seem bitter; wouldn't it be nice if people would talk less and listen more? The painting is one of the more recent artworks that is inspired by something that really bothered me. A negative thought and feeling. While I always keep reminding myself to think positive, this was something that frustrated me. But I am very happy to have been able to turn this frustration into something nice.

Don't think twice

The illustration is made with Posca acrylic paint markers on heavy paper. The use of paper as a medium is an experiment. As an artist you want as many people as possible to enjoy your work. But with higher prices, up to € 999,- for the larger paintings, I can imagine people to think twice about purchasing my art.

This ‘experiment' needs more time to finish but... this one already sold! Today. I am excited. Within four days it already sold!

Resemblance

This lovely elderly couple walked past the gallery this afternoon, looked through the window and decided to have a look at this fresh new artwork. After having a small conversation, they bought the piece. If you happen to see any slight resemblance of the couple with me, that's correct. They are my parents, :) And although I offered a special VIP-discount, they even insisted in paying the listed price. I love this kind of customers!

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Interior update Mr. Upside gallery with some underlayment

Today the long awaited furniture elements arrived in the Mr. Upside gallery! Two cabinets, two presentation blocks and a textiles rack are all made of underlayment. This untreated wood give the fairly large home office / gallery not only a more natural feel but the two cabinets also function as room dividers.

The room dividers are part of our plans to change the function of our 80m2 home office. The two cabinets are based on wheels so they can be easily pushed to any position in the room. They also provide massive storage space for all kinds of stuff you don't want to show the people walking by.

Textile studio and popup gallery

The room previously functioned as a too large home office and sometimes as a bicylce storage, pop-up gallery and also as an extension to our garden shed. Now the cabinets nicely divide the room in a small gallery and the textile studio Janette needs to make her products.

&hout furniture craftsman

The furniture was made by Dutch, Rotterdam based furniture maker and interior designer Lennard Eijkman of &Hout. "To keep my work interesting and to keep developing myself, I mainly focus on businesses and entrepeneurs with original and fresh ideas' Lennard described on his website.

Interior design

After a small brainstorm session on the future plans of the room, Janette immediately took the role of project manager and art director of this interior project. Because of my unlimited confidence in Janette, my own busy schedule and the fact that Janette is passionate about interior and product design, I did not have any contact with Lennard untill today. But as he walked through the door this afternoon I met a very relaxed, experienced and well mannered artisan and craftsman.

Attention to detail

The furniture pieces are all very well build, with attention to detail and solid. We are extremely happy to have the ability to have commisioned such a project. And get the unique furniture delivered, ofcourse, :)

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If you would like to see more images on 'work-in-progress--projects and art, please check out my Instagram account on www.instagram.com/mrupsideart

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Two new paintings added to the Mr. Upside Bold Lines Collection

Although time was limited due to a full schedule the past two months I managed to finish two large paintings! They had been 'sleeping' in my studio for almost a year.

First I planned to have the paintings finished before a new upcoming exhibition in Gent, Belgium at The Holliday Inn Hotel there. But later on I realised the sizes of the paintings exceed the available space there. So I'll keep them in the Mr. Upside Gallery in Voorburg, The Netherlands. 

Artwork 'Working Day'

One painting (shown above) was inspired by a working day at a office. I choose its name 'Working Day' because of the dense, more 'connected' part in the bottom left part and the parts that depict more human elements.

The painting is not as colorful as previous ones because I investigated a more timid, less 'excitement'-style. One advantage of using a more toned-down color scheme is that it fits more easily in different interiors.

More information on artwork 'Working Day' can be found here.

Artwork 'Bits and pieces'

The second painting took a while to get its current balance, both in color and shape. The first setup was extremely rough and I felt the need to take the time to correct the spaces between the lines and the thickness of the lines themselves.

Although I still haven't found the ultimate balance and my newest works contain longer, more structured lines, I am quite happy with how this painting worked out. Just like the painting in the upper part of this blogpost, I used a more toned-down, earthly color scheme.

More information on the 'Bits and pieces' artwork.

Mr. Upside on Instagram

If you would like to see more images on 'work-in-progress--projects and art, please check out my Instagram account on www.instagram.com/mrupsideart

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Artworks now on view in our own home (popup) gallery in Voorburg

A few years ago, when we bought our current house (build in 1922) in Voorburg, The Netherlands, we reserved the ground floor (80m2 / 861ft2) as an office for both our companies, Designia and Janette van Tol. We envisioned having great meetings with clients here and hosting creative workshops, while serving great coffee and delicious sandwiches.  

Messy storage room

But as the years went by, we realised we had been working at the offices of our clients mostly. So the space turned into an occasional art studio, messy storage room, second living room and party room. To name a few. Fun, but as the room takes up almost one third of our house, we had the idea to let the room generate some income. 

Popup art gallery

A few weeks ago, while my art ambitions are evolving into something serious, we decided to make a major part of the room a (popup) art gallery. In the past, the ground floor has had similar destinations. The large shop window with stained glas still reminds of that past. 

Work in Progress

So within a few days we pulled everything out of the front part of the room, hanged the artworks on the walls and a new gallery was born. Ok, point taken. It's not that simple. A lot of work still needs to be done. Selling the black couch for instance and putting info cards on the walls and changing the window signage. But I am happy with the result so far! What do you think?

Artist(s) wanted / seeking representation?

Want your artwork on our walls in Voorburg? Want to be part of our art promotions?
Send us an e-mail with a link to your online art portfolio and a short explanation why your art should be hanging here and we will get in touch as soon as possible!

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Featured on London based online gallery Bold Gallery

Nice! Got featured on the website (and their Instagram account) of London based (online still) Bold Gallery. They specialise in pop art, street inspired art, and abstract art.

If you are also interested in representing me, please contact me. 

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Updated our home office gallery

Extended and updated our home office ‘gallery’ with four new works. They’re hanging on a really nice hanging system called Click Rail Pro from Artiteq.

Inquiries and commissions: MrUpside.com. Follow me on Instagram.

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