It isn’t possible to give an overall figure in answer to this question, for the reasons mentioned above. What the Council owns can be conveniently divided into the following:

1. At Countryside Services sites across the county, there are numerous artworks including the following:

- 8 sculptures by Mike Owens:
- Flint Poster Art; 
- “Functional art” fencing at the Kathleen & May Heritage Centre and Point of Ayr Colliery site; 
- Community link waymarkers
- Four beacons down the coast:
- Two beacons for World War I centenary;
- Dug-out canoe and six carved beams on Flint Foreshore west of Flint Dock.
- Kathleen & May boat sculpture, Connah’s Quay
- Lighthouse and gateway features, Talacre
- Snake and newt earth sculptures, Wepre Park.

For further details see link to public display document below.

2. At County Hall, Mold, the Council holds several artworks, namely:

- 3 portraits; 
- 1 pottery, wall-mounted map of Flintshire; 
- 2 mosaics depicting scenes of Flintshire; 
- a series of large-scale photographs of Flintshire. 

3. At Theatr Clwyd there is 1 copy photographic print and a series of large-scale photographs of recent productions.

4. At the Registrar’s Office, Llwenygrin Hall, Mold, there are 5 framed prints.

5. FCC’s museum collections contain:

- a small fine art collection which contains mainly Victorian portraiture of local dignitaries plus items by amateur Buckley artist James Bentley. 
- a decorative art collection of Buckley ceramics including the Martin Harrison Collection.

6. Thousands of other artworks such as watercolours, sketches, engravings, photographs and sculpture have been deposited at NEWA as part of various archive collections. 

Flintshire County Council does not hold information relating to artworks in schools. This information may be held by individual schools. Information about Flintshire Schools and their contact addresses.

List of artworks on public display in the possession of Flintshire County Council, correct as to April 2020.

Unknown. Most items have not been valued and are significant for their historical rather than monetary value.

Five artworks in total were purchased by Flintshire County Council in the period 2016-2019. All were purchased by Countryside Services and all were externally funded: 

• Big Flintshire Guardian (BFG) sculpture in Flint, funded by Coastal Communities Fund, £5,000.
• Point of Ayr Pit Pony sculpture and ‘functional art’ fencing, funded by Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF), £8,000; 
• Flint Poster Art, funded by Eirgrid, £720; 
• Kathleen & May Heritage Centre ‘functional art’ fencing, funded by HLF, £1,806.50; 
• Flint bench sculptures, funded by Cadw, £10,000.

How many art works has the Council sold recently, for how much and what was the money used for?Flintshire County Council does not sell works of art.

This is a complex question as there are different aspects of upkeep.

• Insurance: All art works are insured as part of the general insurance policy of Flintshire County Council and there is no separate cost available.
• Storage: art works on display would generally have no storage costs separate from the general upkeep of the building in which they are kept. Art works in the Museum Service and NEWA are packaged and stored in their general storage areas and strong-rooms along with other museum and archival items.
• Repair: this would be done as and when required. NEWA has an archive conservator on the staff who would repair art works as well as other archival items if required and if the work fell within his areas of expertise. Any art works requiring other skills would be dealt with by a specialist employed specifically for the purpose at a cost agreed on a case-by-case basis.