We haven't got a lot of pictures out, to be honest - we culled a lot on moving down here. Most of it's still stored away in the garage, because we hope to be redecorating soon (probably around 2021, the way things are going
), and then we'll probably go out any choose something with local connections.
We have (stored away) a Pascale Bigot (a French artist and teacher living in the West Midlands) who we met at a viewing, and so liked her pastel work we bought an original (it's a stylised scene of a French farmhouse); a couple of paintings by friends of Mrs O's parents, a jungle scene by Dr Alec Dalziel, and a Wiltshire landscape by a Mrs Riven, both now sadly deceased; and a set of 6 prints of cartoon sheep by Terry Whitworth, a prolific Dorset artist. We bought those from his studio in Broadwindsor at least 30 years ago, from memory!
The only items on exhibit at the moment are in the living room - we have an original painting of a withered tree in the Lake District by R Haywood Coyle, another landscape artist with a studio in the West Midlands which we visited, and two small prints of Dorset scenes (Gold Hill and The Cobb at Lyme Regis).
I think it's fair to say both Mrs O and I would choose landscapes over abstract art - just our personal preference.