
Our physical gallery shop, located in the Nunnery Café offers Bow Arts’ artists the opportunity to promote and sell work to a wider audience. Bow Arts facilitates access to the Own Art initiative, helping to connect artists and buyers for the purchase of original artwork.
Sell through Own Art
Own Art is a national initiative, supported by Arts Council England, to make it easy and affordable for anyone and everyone to buy contemporary art and craft by providing interest-free loans.
Bow Arts, as a member of Own Art, can process loans from £100 to £2,500 on behalf of our artists.
We offer Own Art on all sales through the Nunnery Gallery, and process sales on behalf of Bow Arts studio artists, flat holders, and artist educators. The Nunnery Gallery takes a 15% commission towards the admin cost of the sale.
As a Bow Arts artist you can use Own Art to process private sales from buyers, and offer the service to sell artworks during events such as Open Studios.
I want to make a sale through Bow Arts. What are my next steps?
Once you’ve agreed to sell a work, you can get in touch with apaveley@bowarts.com to provide full artwork details, and the contact information of the buyer. We will then be in touch with the buyer to arrange a time to process the loan.
You can take a deposit payment from the buyer to secure the artwork, before passing them over to the Arts & Events team. Any deposit payment must be processed by you, and the remaining amount would then make up the Own Art loan.
Got something to sell? Email apaveley@bowarts.com.
Pitch your products for the shop
PLEASE NOTE: This is for studio holders, artist educators and exhibiting artists only.
Email with:
1. Details on what you want to sell
2. Dimensions
3. Pricing
4. Whether you’d prefer to stock your work in our physical shop or online platform
Fill in the form below to pitch your products.

What products do you accept?
We accept pitches for a wide range of products – from books, pottery and workshop vouchers, to clothing, homeware, prints and more!
We normally time our shop refits for the end of an exhibition run, so we have a new shop ready to go for our following show. However, Bow Arts artists are more than welcome to pitch us their products throughout the year, which will be considered on a case-by-case basis.
How do I get paid?
We stock shop products on a sale or return basis. After each exhibition run (3-4 times a year) we email you a purchase order that accounts for all sales from the last payment run, right through to the last day of the month when an exhibition ends. You then send us an invoice in return which we pay out.
Does Bow Arts take a cut?
Bow Arts take 20% commission on all sales (on top of VAT) in return for promotion, admin, and selling your products.