Own Art from Broomhill

Interest free loan scheme

Own Art is Arts Council England’s new interest free loan scheme. It is designed to make it easy and affordable for people to buy contemporary works of art including paintings, photography, sculpture, glassware and furniture. Around 250 galleries across the country are participating in our scheme. You can buy art, interest free, from any of these.

Arts Council England aims to put the arts at the heart of national life. One of the ways we do this is to encourage people to live with art they love. We also want to help artists live by their creative output and support galleries who sell high quality contemporary art.

What you can buy

You can buy paintings, sculpture, glassware, ceramics, photography, jewellery, furniture and textiles; in fact, you can buy any work of art or craft by a living artist which you see in one of our participating galleries.

Broomhill will help you commission something unique by an artist you admire. Ask the gallery of your choice if this option is available.

How do you Own Art?

Firstly you’ll need to find something that you want to buy. You can then use Own Art to take out a loan to buy it. Broomhill will help you with this.

You need to be:

Over 18 years old
Resident in the UK
In possession of a bank or building society account that can operate standing orders

You will need to take two forms of identification with you to the gallery – something with an address on it such as a driver’s licence or utilities bill and something with your signature on it, such as a passport, credit or debit card.

The participating gallery that you buy the art from will help you complete the credit agreement. After satisfactory credit checking, a standing order will be set up to make your repayments.

How much you can borrow

Loans are available up to £2,000 and sometimes from as little as £100. The loan amount can go towards an item that costs more than £2,000. It is possible to buy several items at a time, or one or more items at different times in different galleries providing the total amount you owe does not exceed £2,000 at any one time.

The amount you borrow is then paid back over a maximum of ten equal amounts.

We may ask you to pay a deposit of 10%. This will be returned if, for any reason, your application for credit is unsuccessful.

There are no extra costs. There is no charge for the credit (APR 0%). This means the total amount payable under the loan, and the deposit, is not more than the cash price of the piece(s) of work you purchased. There’s no administrative charge or handling fee either.

More Information

Arts Council England Own Art page…
Own Art leaflet download…