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The HELD portrait studio

Begin withthe place itself.

Five quiet steps from an ordinary photograph to a portrait worthy of the wall. Your preview is free, private and usually ready in five to ten minutes.

01 to 05 · Nothing charged until you choose the finished object

Step one

Show us the house.

It is made while you wait, here on this page, usually in five to ten minutes. No waiting list and nothing to pay.

Phone photos are perfect. We accept JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC up to 25MB.

Your portrait is made with AI from your photograph, then checked by a person before anything is printed.

  • Include the whole roofline
  • Use the clearest photo you have
  • People, pets and cars in shot are fine: the portrait leaves them out

The photograph is half the portrait

The portrait can only hold what the camera caught. Ten seconds here is the difference between close and exact.

People and pets will not appear in the portrait

Your photograph, with life in front of the house. Completely fine to upload as it is.
The portrait is of the building alone, so people, pets and passers-by are left out.

Step back and fit the whole house in

Too close. The roof and the sides run out of the picture, and whatever the photo cuts off, the portrait loses too.
The whole building, with a little sky and ground to spare

Attached or in a terrace? Keep the neighbours in

Cropped at the join. Part of your own home has gone with it.
The neighbours in shot. We scan the photo and outline just your home.

One photograph, on its own

A collage. Two views fight each other.
One clear view of the front

The photo itself, not a screenshot

A screenshot, clock and all
The original, from your camera roll

Cars, bins and weather are all fine. Estate agent photographs of your own home work well too, as the photo rather than a screenshot of it.

Add your house photoUpload one you already have, or take a new photo now.
You can also drag a photo straight onto this panel.

Yours, not a showroom

An ordinary photograph.Drag it and see.

Phone camera, parked cars, grey sky. The studio works from what you actually have, and keeps the house exactly as it stands.

Before
AfterAfter

Fifteen editions

Not filters.Fifteen points of view.

Ink, glass, carved lino, gouache, gold leaf. Pick the one that suits the place, or let the studio match one to the architecture.

The Signature Collection

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Midnight Edition edition of the HELD demonstration house, in a classic frame in natural oak

The signature

Midnight Edition

Carved linocut marks and layered monoprint under a midnight-indigo field, with copper and gold leaf, a low terracotta horizon and windows lit from within.

DramaticIntimateCollectible

01Midnight Edition

Fifteen finished studies →
Explore every edition

On the wall

Framed in the UK.Hung where life happens.

Real hanging heights and real sightlines, at the size you choose. You can try yours in these rooms before you order anything.

A warm British family room with a portrait hung above the sofa
The Colourist in a family room
Family room

16 × 20″ · Classic black

A British stair landing with a portrait above a low bench
Graphite Study on a stair landing
Stair landing

16 × 20″ · Classic black

A much-loved British dining room with a portrait above an oak sideboard
Lineage in a dining room
Dining room

16 × 20″ · Classic black

What it costs

Free to see.Yours from £39.

Nothing is charged to make your portrait. Every price below includes UK delivery and the finished piece.

Swipe to compare every format

SizeFramedDeep BoxFine Art PaperCanvasAcrylic
8 × 10″£59£69£39Not available£69
16 × 20″Most chosen£109£119£75£99£139
24 × 30″£179Not available£109£159Not available

First homes · forever homes · the one you still talk about

Hold onto the place,not the photograph.

Start with your photograph
See your house as art: Held