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 examples of Modern British Art from the 20th Century.

British Art Portfolio was set up by old friends Amanda Lowther and Louise Newton after 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 with the aim of inspiring friends and friends of friends by bringing beautiful original art to the countryside.

Now about to embark on their eighth 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 viewing the British art & sculpture and meeting their friends. Seeing paintings in a home setting gives people the opportunity to imagine what these works of art might look like in their own homes.

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Art Exhibitions

Art Exhibition Christmas 2018

Open weekend in the Gallery. Original paintings and drawings from Contemporary & Modern Artists and featuring our "Featured Artist" of the month, Jonathan Cox...come and join us in the Christmas festivities at Guilsborough

Jonathan Cox

We are delighted to welcome Jonathan Cox to our stable of artists – he is a sculptor with a very special talent. We are sure you will love his work….which will be on show at our Christmas Art Exhibition at the Guilsborough Gallery in Northamptonshire NN6 8QW

British Art Portfolio like 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 exhibition host and charities supported have been wide ranging, diverse and inspirational. We have raised an average of £1500 per exhibition and our record was over £4,000 for Jo’s Trust at Deene Park in March 2016! Below are a few examples of the charities supported:

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.

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, London, where she learned to love all Modern British. Browse & Darby specialised in works by Walter Sickert, William Nicholson, Matthew Smith, among the many luminaries of that period. She came across the wonderful Gallery Artist’s of the 80s & 90s: 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 – and which is very evocative of his work, (click here to see more). Anthony Eyton is still painting and is well into his 90s!

Amanda has had a life-long passion for 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 might oak … by which time they will be ready to retire!