Welcome to Essential Artwork
First of all, welcome to our site, we hope you enjoy your visit.
Essential Artwork is a new Scottish online art gallery designed primarily to enhance
and simplify the experience of selling or buying artwork.
Our experience of some
online galleries is that they can be quite frustrating to use in a variety of ways
and so here at Essential Artwork, our purpose and remit was to overcome these negative
or irritating aspects and to present the artwork on our site in the best possible
way to the advantage of artist and purchaser alike.
Throughout the design and creation of the website, we have had high levels of valuable input and guidance from artists
and have tried to incorporate everything on their ‘wish lists’ of features. Artwork
here is always displayed in its true proportions, allowing each image to be seen
and appreciated in its entirety.
Visitors to the site should find our search functionality
a simple and efficient way to locate artwork according to their personally set criteria.
A full range of other features make for simplicity in all website activities and
will be added to continuously.
Please enjoy your visit
We hope you enjoy using the site and keep an eye out for new features as they will
be added continuously. If you think of something that you'd love to see on the site,
please let us know and we'll do
our best to make it happen.
Membership Information for Artists
Essential Artwork allows artists to exhibit artwork in a 24 hour gallery for maximum exposure to the potential art-buying public.
There is absolutely no commission on sales,unlike high street galleries and many other online galleries.
Basic Bronze Membership is absolutely FREE and while there is limit of a maximum of 5 items of artwork, it allows the full use of all the exciting features on the site.
Silver or Gold Membership allows artists to have much more ‘exhibition space’ for their artwork by simply paying a small monthly fee (or an annual fee which works out slightly less expensive). Please view the Membership Comparison page for further details.
A personal customisable website is a major attractive option with Gold membership for only a small additional monthly or annual charge.
A free trial period of 1 month is offered to artists who opt initially for Silver and Gold membership. If during this month, for whatever reason, an artist decides not to continue, it is simply a case of cancelling the subscription online through PayPal and there will be absolutely no charge made.
Artists upgrading to Silver or Gold membership will not be entitled to this free trial period as they will already have had free use of the site and the opportunity to be suitably impressed with all the features.
All Sales transactions which arise from the site take place directly between the artist and the buyer as we feel there is no need for a third party in the transaction.
If an artist has signed up for PayPal, that can be used as a valid secure payment method but, if not, the buyer can contact the artist through the site to find out how to go about purchasing an item of artwork. This allows each artist to have individual policies on packaging, refunds and other transaction details.
