You never know, in the future we may well open on more days with more art supplies for sale. There are not allot of places to go in Fife to buy art materials so hopefully we can save you a trip to Edinburgh or Glasgow if thats where your art shop is that you usually get your art supplies from.
iartsupplies (http://iartsupplies.co.uk/) is the result of a prayer that was made in 2001. I was stuck between making a life changing choice. I had been a Christian about a year, and was just beginning to realise the power of prayer. I had a choice of either staying at university to do a degree in Architecture, or go to Granada in the south of Spain for just under a year and follow my heart and paint off my own back. I would have done both if I could. I just did not know how to look inside myself and make that kind of decision. So I prayed, Lord, you choose, you know I have given my life over to you, you know what is best for me. I cannot make a decision like this on my own. Please send me an angel, while I am on holiday, to tell me what I am to do. I was due to go on an Easter break to the south of France for 2 weeks. The 2 weeks were up, and it was the last day and still no answer. I thought about it, and did not give up hope as really the holiday is not over until you are home. I was the last person on the plane as I really didn't want to go home. There was one seat left. The person I sat next to was unusually talkative. He asked me just about everything to do with my life. I was very careful not to mention anything to do with art, or painting. Finally he said 'Well it sounds like you should just go to Spain and be a famous artist!' I thanked God in my heart. It was then I realised that the answer was in me all along. All I had to do was look at the joy that I would have gotten out of the decision. Joy is a gift from the Lord. He says that we will be overflowing with it. Well I was that day I can tell you! I went to Spain, and it was there I came across Amsterdam Oil Paint, made by Royal Talens. I was very sceptical about buying it (so I understand what it takes to try out a different brand) in the end though I had know choice. The first tube I bought was quinadrone rose Amsterdam oil paint, my favourite, after ultramarine blue. Amsterdam Oil now though has been replaced by Van Gogh Oils.
When I came back from the UK, I had had to decide what I was going to do with my life for a job, and ended up starting Trinity Arts LTD with the help of my family. We then opened the Art Shop and Gallery in June 2002, in Pittenweem, as the Scottish Distributors for Royal Talens. In 2004, my future wife Natalie McVean literally walked into my life, and we were married In 2007. We closed the art shop later that summer as that side of the business still wasn't working out, and now we focus on selling, to schools and the trade as well as end users over the Internet on iartsupplies.co.uk
So like I was explaining above, we are now open again to the public, but only on Wednesday afternoons, or by appointment outside that. So if you live in Fife, or just outside it, and need some art materials; look us up and come along to Pittenweem!
Telephone: +44 1337 860860
