An art gallery in York has yet again trounced all the posh galleries of London to win a major retailing award.
Castle Galleries in the Coppergate Centre has scooped the Retailer of the Year title from the Fine Art Guild Awards for the second year running.
Matthew Seddon, assistant manager, said: "Judges decided that the quality of service and information we give to customers is second to none - and the art we sell is the best in the UK, if not the world.
"That's no idle boast, because one of our artists, Govinder Nazran, has won the Guild's Best Published Artist in the UK title and another of our artists, John Waterhouse, has won the guild's Best Up-and-coming Artist in the UK.
"This is the highest accolade that the major art institution in this country can bestow and we're cock-a-hoop."
Castle Galleries has been in existence for seven years, but the York branch was established only two years ago by Ian Weatherby-Blythe and he is assisted by Mr Seddon, gallery manager Kate Durrant and Andrew Tessier.
Updated: 09:42 Thursday, May 27, 2004
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