The Art of Design Issue 19 2016 | Page 106

106 Locker Systems don’t have to be boring. Like many things, new ideas start from problems. My problem a few years ago was that I wanted a contemporary painting of my parents’ house for their ruby wedding anniversary. Without a spare few grand in the bank I was struggling to find an artist and I got tired of trying to find on one Google and getting them to reply! A few weeks later I was talking to an old friend who is an artist (sadly couldn’t help me with my problem as it was different kind of art), but he said he didn’t know how to market his artwork, wasn’t interested in the business aspects of it and just wanted to concentrate on his art. Within a few weeks Commission an Artist was born. That was 6 years ago and we