Art Celebration 2026 is NOW Open

🌼 The Wildflower Trail Art Celebration is back for 2026 🐝

Nature enthusiasts, makers, photographers, and imaginative souls—come be part of something special and step into a world of wildflowers, wonder, and creativity.

We’re inviting nature lovers of every age—little explorers, budding photographers, imaginative teens, experienced artists, and anyone who simply delights in the outdoors—to celebrate the beauty of Adur and Worthing.

Share your unique view of nature through art, photography, and pure curiosity.
Let the landscape inspire you! Come celebrate the beauty around us—and show us how you see the natural world! 🌸📸

INFORMATION FOR ENTRANTS 

Thanks for your interest in the third Wildflower Trail Art Celebration, with our theme of Wildflowers and Pollinators. We are aiming to really celebrate the diversity and joy that wildflowers can bring to our communities, as well as our insect friends. 

The Wildflower Trail is a project by We are Pollinator Pioneers, a community interest company. Our mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and community projects. We raise funds to deliver essential free training, bring projects to life and support groups with their amazing efforts. To find out more about our work Pollinator Pioneers

OPEN TO EVERYONE LIVING IN ADUR AND WORTHING, UK

Everyone who lives in Adur and Worthing is welcome to contribute. We have no distinct categories – we are welcoming art or photos that celebrate wildflowers and nature from everyone living locally – children and young people, adults, professional artists or enthusiastic amateurs, we can’t wait to see your efforts. 

SUBMISSION OF ART AND PHOTOS

Everyone can submit one image. We need a good digital image of your art or photos of wildflowers and/or pollinators. Send these to us at wildflowerartcomp@gmail.com

The images should be no larger than 5mb in jpeg format. Please include your name, contact email, title of your image and a paragraph about what inspires you and your work. 

A selection of images will be chosen for display in local galleries from Spring 2026. 

SUBMISSION PERIOD 

Submission for the exhibition opens now and closes on 1st March 2026. No submissions can be accepted after that date.

USE OF IMAGES – TERMS AND CONDITIONS

By submitting your images, you agree to grant We are Pollinator Pioneers and The Wildflower Trail a perpetual, royalty-free, non-exclusive, licence to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, distribute, make available to the public, and exercise all copyright and publicity rights with respect to your images for the purpose of promoting and selling of We are Pollinator Pioneers and the Wildflower Trail promotional material only. 

We are Pollinator Pioneers and The Wildflower Trail will likely use submitted images to develop promotional materials, such as calendars or cards. We sell these to raise funds, which then support our educational projects in Adur and Worthing. Please visit our website for more information about how we use our funding: Pollinator Pioneers

We will also share the images and your inspiration on our social media channels and our websites. We hope you can also help like and share these too – please follow our social media by visiting: 

The Wildflower Trail on Instagram

The Wildflower Trail on Facebook

If you do not want to grant, We are Pollinator Pioneers and The Wildflower Trail the rights set out above, please do NOT submit your images.

Thanks again for your interest and we all hope you enjoy being creative and inspired by our wonderful wildflowers and their pollinators, from everyone at Pollinator Pioneers and The Wildflower Trail