About Art Image Direct

We are a new picture library for East Anglia covering both new photo graphs and new paintings by East Anglian photographers and artists, together with an archive collection of 19th and 20th century photographs and an art collection spanning 300 years.

The Image library will updated with new images regularly.

The idea of setting up a picture library was first considered by Mike Hicks around four years ago. We made contact with Lady Bridgeman of The Bridgeman Library and received from her some inspirational advice. It has taken since then to get the concept together of a picture library that is a little different.

We have a nucleus of old water-colour and oil painting images acquired by Mr Hicks over his 30 years within the East Anglian art and antique trade. To this we have added known private collections of drawings and paintings. In addition, we have a portfolio of 19th century photographs dealing with work, leisure and life in general. It is our aim to add to these, modern paintings, drawings and photographs in all of the 12 categories that will feature on the library website.

What is different about our library is that we shall, wherever possible in all 12 categories within the website, show a percentage of images that reflect East Anglia and our representative collection will span some four centuries.

This part of the country inspired great artists like Munnings, Crome, Cotman, Seago, Constable, plus many hundreds of others. We cannot guarantee a modern Munnings or Constable but we represent, through very careful selection, a range of artists and photographers whose talent has yet to be appreciated. We hope, through our library, they will receive the recognition they deserve.