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British Art Portfolio – Home of Modern British Art and Contemporary Art

Welcome to the British Art Portfolio website …. We hope you will find it both inspirational and exciting – with many examples of affordable Contemporary British Art and Sculpture together with a selection of Modern British Art from the 20th Century.

British Art Portfolio was set up by old friends Amanda Lowther and Louise Newton following on from studying for their degrees in History of Art at Leicester University. Amanda and Louise were just 50 years young when they started at Leicester in 2008 as ‘mature students’!  They both enjoyed studying 20th & 21st Century British Art and Sculpture so much that they decided to start a mini pop-up gallery trading only in British Contemporary Art and Modern British Art and sculpture.  Their aim was to inspire their friends and friends of friends by bringing beautiful original art to the countryside.

Now about to embark on their ninth year of trading, British Art Portfolio enjoys a reputation for exciting exhibitions in private homes, historic houses and galleries; private views are fantastic events where the champagne flows and people thoroughly enjoy seeing the British art & sculpture and meeting their friends. Seeing the paintings in a home setting gives people the opportunity to imagine what the works of art might look like in their own homes.

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To reassure you….we only send out a newsletter about 8-10 times a year – and we hold about 5-6 exhibitions a year!

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Exhibitions and News

Catherine Forshall

Featured in Country Living. Article courtesy of Lauran Elsden & photography by Alun Callender. Catherine Forshall, a coastal artist talks about how she captures the little sea creatures in her fabulous paintings.
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Jill Barthorpe

Capturing the 'likeness' of things. Article courtesy of Kate Chapman from Lincolnshire Life magazine. Jill Barthorpe describes how she gets her inspiration from the Lincolnshire Countryside surrounding her home.
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Andrew Farmer Video

Andrew Farmer’s Biscuit Tin Painter – Documentary Film

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Latest Works

DYLAN WALDRON – SPINDLE BERRIES

ROBERT NEWTON – HIDDEN SUN

 

FRED CLARKE – BUFFALO

JO TAYLOR – GATHERING STORM

LAURANCE SIMON – CANDELABRA

JOSEPHINE TROTTER – FLOWERS IN A TUSCAN LANDSCAPE

British Art Portfolio likes to nurture young British Artists and the current crop includes:  Beatrice Forshall, Emily Ponsonby, Florence Houston and Rose Electra Harris.  Please have a look at their work which we have featured here on our website

As something completely original – compared to any other Art Gallery – British Art Portfolio like to support a charity at each exhibition and give a percentage of their profits to the chosen cause along with all the drinks donations (first glass always free!!).  Each charity is nominated by the hosts of the exhibition and charities supported have been wide ranging, diverse & inspirational – below are a few examples:

Jo’s Cervical Cancer Trust, Riding Everest, Stop MS, East Anglian Children’s Hospice, Ronald McDonald House Oxford, ROSY, UK Youth, Tarporley War Memorial Cottage Hospital & Young Diabetes.   We have raised an average of £1,500 per exhibition – some more some less – our record was over £4,000 for Jo’s Trust at Deene Park in March 2016!

Both Amanda and Louise have backgrounds in British Art both Contemporary & Modern British.

Louise worked for many years at the gallery Browse & Darby in Cork Street where she learnt to love all Modern British art  – the gallery specialised in works by Walter Sickert, William Nicholson, Matthew Smith amongst the many luminaries of that period.  She came across the wonderful Gallery artists of the 80s & 90s – Andrew Farmer, Anthony Eyton, Philip Sutton, Diana Armfield, Anthony Fry, Patrick George, Patrick Symons.  Many are still painting today and British Art Portfolio has an example of Anthony Eyton’s work of which they are very proud – a street scene painted in Sudan – very evocative of his work,  (click here for to see more). Anthony Eyton is still painting and is well into his 90’s!

Amanda has had a life-long passion for contemporary British art, she paints regularly and has exhibited at several joint shows over the last fifteen years.  She completed a foundation course at Rugby College and has studied fine art at the Richard Attenborough Centre in Leicester as well as the Prince’s Drawing School in London.

Out of little British acorns grow mighty British oaks!! British Art Portfolio is still a sapling but quite a sturdy one and Amanda and Louise hope that in the next 10 years they will grow into a mighty oak … by which time they will be ready to retire!!