Top Deck Publications and its first publication
THE BRITISH STUDENTS' ART COLLECTION
started when Clegolo, a Royal Marine college student,
passed over the painting pictured below to a fellow business &
publishing student who had been studying with ACT, Dartington,
(and who had been looking to publish such work since 1986, leaving school to start on the
Enterprise Allowance training scheme, having seen the excellence of fellow students work )

Clegolo said that he had visited an Aquarium, where there were
some children with speech and hearing impairment, on a school trip.
Clegolo said he saw one of the school girls doing sign language,
whilst looking into one of the fish tanks; And so created this painting*

Right click on this picture to put it on your Desktop				All profits from the sale of this picture go to help children with speech and hearing impairment. Commission, get rights or purchase gifts, greetings-cards, post-cards, mouse-mats, calendars, Jigsaws, & prints now available on paper and canvas upto 4ft
		'OILY' by Clegolo *note: The blue eyes in the picture represents calmness

An idea of a students' art collection was put to Clegolo. Thought
up in 1986 the idea was that with government backing, a yearly
national art competition could be promoted where entries would
be printed in a light blue folder/catalogue with gold print TBSAC
NOW INCLUDED IN OUR ARCAF FOLDER

this would then be distributed back to the artist's/buyer's and
into cafe's and outlets, with prints for sale .Clegolo said that it would be like
'being on a big ship',and so shortly later the 'Top Deck Publications' company began.

The collection continued for many years until the internet had become established
and in 1999 the British Students' Art Collection (Top Deck) took up the Domain name
StudentsArt.com , & now publishes a wide range of titles for all, with profits donated to Charities.

In 1986, 6 months after our founder thought of his idea and had told a few friends in the Torbay/Totnes area about 'THE BRITISH STUDENTS' ART COLLECTION'', 2 Artists in London appeared on the news in a warehouse, as our founder had imagined, and together with support from Charles Saatchi, Anthony d'Offay and the new BRITART, jumped onto promoting Young British Art.. More recently in Jan 2007 The Saatchi gallery appeared again on TV and in the papers promoting his new Stuart website as Charles Saatchi's brainchild, also with national distribution being planned by d'Offay. Maybe it's a coincidence, but the timing seems a little accurate. If you would like to help us fight against this competition, maintain and protect our pioneering idea please invest or support us in any way you can.


THE BRITISH STUDENTS ART COLLECTION © Published by TopDeckPublications.co.uk, Hove, Sussex. UK
in 2005 Top Deck was aquired by the IDACO media corporation, Liechtenstein