We now offer a new 0%, interest-free*** credit service to help you buy contemporary craft from our gallery.

Pick a piece of art you love and take it away today!
Paying 0% interest over 10 months (items between  £100 and £2,500)***

Currently, this scheme is only available on purchases made in the Gallery
​***subject to eligibility
FIND OUT MORE ABOUT OWNART

What is OWN ART
Art galleries and institutions in Wales now have access to the Own Art initiative, a UK-wide programme dedicated to making contemporary art and craft affordable. The Own Art scheme, which will also adopt the name Ein Celf in Wales, is a publicly subsidised scheme supported by the Arts Council of Wales, which offers interest-free loans for purchasing original artworks, and will succeed the long-standing Collectorplan loan scheme, which has successfully facilitated over 40,000 art purchases in Wales
since its launch in 1983 by the Arts Council of Wales.
Operated by Creative United in partnership with Novuna Consumer Finance, Own Art is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. This milestone coincides with the extension of the service to galleries in Wales for the first time, under a new partnership agreement with the Arts Council of Wales. More than 300 galleries across England, Scotland and Northern Ireland already participate in the scheme, thanks to the support of Arts Council England, Creative Scotland and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.



The Own Art scheme is available through their network of member galleries for the purchase of contemporary art and craft of any kind and in any media. 

That means you can choose more or less anything you want from paintings, prints, drawings, and sculpture to glassware, ceramics, jewellery, furniture, and textiles. Whatever you decide to buy, it must be made by a living artist as we want to support the artists of today by encouraging sales of their work to new buyers. In some galleries, you can use Own Art on works of art by artists born in the 20th or 21st century. 


How you can use the scheme
The first stage is the difficult bit - deciding what to buy. There are hundreds of Own Art member galleries across the country to choose from, many of which specialise in different types of work. Use the gallery finder to search for the kind of work you are most interested in.