An online company is hoping to ‘democratise’ art by helping recently graduated painters and sculptors exhibit and sell their work on the. Internet.

New Blood Art is touring art graduate shows and offering promising new talents a forum to display their creations.

Sarah Ryan, a former art teacher, set up the business partly to help young artists break through in what she says is an increasingly difficult market. “When I started out the art world was about who you knew and it had a reputation for being elitist. I wanted to disrupt that and make it more democratic,” she said.